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A Critical Dictionary of Sociology

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A Critical Dictionary of Sociology

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A Critical Dictionary of Sociology book

A Critical Dictionary of Sociology

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A Critical Dictionary of Sociology book

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1990
eBook Published 11 March 2002
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203199565
Pages 452
eBook ISBN 9780203199565
Subjects Area Studies, Social Sciences
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Boudon, R., & Bourricaud, F. (1990). A Critical Dictionary of Sociology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203199565

ABSTRACT

Unlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the Critical Dictionary of Sociology, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience.

Each entry grapples directly with an issue, whether theoretical, epistemological, philosophical, political or empirical, and provides a strong statement of what the authors think about it. The discussions are considered but argumentative.  By reaffirming that a non-marxist style of critique is still possible, Boudon and Bourricaud have presented a distinctive approach to the key issues which confront the societies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries.

For some this work will be a textbook, for others an indispensable sourcebook of sociological concepts, and for most a way of opening our eyes to new dimensions in our understanding of the great ideas and theories of sociology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

INTRODUCTION

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Action

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Action (collective)

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Aggregation

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Alienation 34

ByAnomie

chapter |4 pages

Anomie

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |3 pages

Authority

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

Beliefs

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Bureaucracy

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Capitalism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

Causality 69

ByCharisma

chapter |4 pages

Charisma

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Community 77

ByComte, Auguste

chapter |4 pages

Comte, Auguste

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Conformity and Deviance

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Crime

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Culturalism and Culture

ByCycles

chapter |5 pages

Cycles

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

Democracy

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Determinism 116

ByDevelopment

chapter |6 pages

Development

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Dialectic

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Diffusion 132

ByDurkheim, Emile

chapter |7 pages

Durkheim, Emile

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Economics and

BySociology

chapter |3 pages

Egalitarianism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Elections

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Élite(s)

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Experimentation

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Family

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

Function

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Functionalism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

Groups

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Historicism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

History and Sociology

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Ideologies

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Knowledge

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Machiavelli,

ByNiccolò

chapter |7 pages

Marx, Karl

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Measurement

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

Methodology

ByMinorities

chapter |8 pages

Minorities

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

Needs

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |8 pages

Objectivity

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Power

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

Prediction

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

part |2 pages

Professions

chapter |5 pages

Prophetism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Rationality

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |11 pages

Religion

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

Reproduction

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Role

ByRousseau,

chapter |9 pages

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Schumpeter, Joseph

ByAlois

chapter |5 pages

Social Change

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Social Control

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Social Mobility

BySocial

chapter |6 pages

Social Stratification

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |9 pages

Social Symbolism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Socialization

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Sociobiology

BySpencer, Herbert

chapter |7 pages

Spencer, Herbert

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |9 pages

State, The

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Status

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Structuralism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

part |2 pages

Structure

chapter |5 pages

Suicide

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |5 pages

System

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Teleology

ByTheory Tocqueville

chapter |6 pages

Theory

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Tocqueville, Alexis de

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |4 pages

Utilitarianism

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |6 pages

Utopia

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

chapter |7 pages

Weber, Max

ByRaymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud
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