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
letter |30 pages
A
entry |7 pages
Action
entry |7 pages
Action (collective)
entry |6 pages
Aggregation
entry |4 pages
Alienation
entry |3 pages
Anomie
entry |3 pages
Authority
letter |14 pages
B
entry |9 pages
Beliefs
entry |5 pages
Bureaucracy
letter |50 pages
C
entry |7 pages
Capitalism
entry |8 pages
Causality
entry |4 pages
Charisma
entry |4 pages
Community
entry |3 pages
Comte, Auguste
entry |7 pages
Conformity and Deviance
entry |6 pages
Crime
entry |7 pages
Culturalism and Culture
entry |4 pages
Cycles
letter |33 pages
D
entry |6 pages
Democracy
entry |6 pages
Determinism
entry |6 pages
Development
entry |4 pages
Dialectic
entry |6 pages
Diffusion
entry |5 pages
Durkheim, Emile
letter |30 pages
E
entry |7 pages
Economics and Sociology
entry |4 pages
Egalitarianism
entry |6 pages
Elections
entry |7 pages
Élite(s)
entry |6 pages
Experimentation
letter |16 pages
F
entry |8 pages
Family
entry |4 pages
Function
entry |4 pages
Functionalism
letter |8 pages
G
entry |8 pages
Groups
letter |14 pages
H
entry |7 pages
Historicism
entry |2 pages
History and Sociology
entry |1 pages
The Search for General Laws
entry |1 pages
The Search for Evolutionary Laws
entry |3 pages
The Search for Structural Models
letter |6 pages
I
entry |6 pages
Ideologies
letter |6 pages
K
entry |6 pages
Knowledge
letter |32 pages
M
entry |7 pages
Machiavelli, Niccolò
entry |6 pages
Marx, Karl
entry |7 pages
Measurement
entry |5 pages
Methodology
entry |7 pages
Minorities
letter |7 pages
N
entry |7 pages
Needs
letter |7 pages
O
entry |7 pages
Objectivity
letter |17 pages
P
entry |7 pages
Power
entry |4 pages
Prediction
entry |3 pages
Professions
entry |3 pages
Prophetism
letter |35 pages
R
entry |8 pages
Rationality
entry |11 pages
Religion
entry |4 pages
Reproduction
entry |5 pages
Role
entry |7 pages
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
letter |84 pages
S
entry |5 pages
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois
entry |5 pages
Social Change
entry |6 pages
Social Control
entry |4 pages
Social Mobility
entry |6 pages
Social Stratification
entry |9 pages
Social Symbolism
entry |6 pages
Socialization
entry |6 pages
Sociobiology
entry |7 pages
Spencer, Herbert
entry |9 pages
State, The
entry |4 pages
Status
entry |6 pages
Structuralism
entry |2 pages
Structure
entry |5 pages
Suicide
entry |4 pages
System
letter |13 pages
T
entry |5 pages
Teleology
entry |6 pages
Theory
entry |2 pages
Tocqueville, Alexis de
letter |10 pages
U
entry |5 pages
Utilitarianism
entry |5 pages
Utopia
letter |7 pages
W
entry |7 pages
Weber, Max