附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The social sciences and the two types of relativism / Raymond Boudon -- Sociology, critique and modernity: views across the European divide / Johann P. Arnason -- The decline of the social / Alain Touraine -- Sociology as a science of culture: linguistic pluralism in Australia and Belarus / Jerzy J. Smolicz and Margaret J. Secombe -- An old theme revisited: sociology and ideology / Michel Wieviorka -- Sociology and the critical reflexivity of modernity: scholarly practices in historical and comparative context / Björn Wittrock -- Divergent commitments and identity crisis / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg.
摘要:Sociology in particular is the scene of heated debates about ideology. This work brings together a series of articles that throw light on selected aspects of this intricate matter by sociologists such as Boudon, Wittrock, Arnason, Touraine, Secombe, and Sternberg.