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Zustand: Good. 1st Published 1989. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Mr Runciman studies the relation of sociology to political philosophy, clarifies an number of disputed and often unclear topics in the social sciences, and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of developments which, in 1969 at the time of this book's publication, were recent. After defining his terms and considering the scope and limits of the social sciences as a whole, he examines the sociological writings of Marx, Max Weber and other sociologists, and then goes on to discuss such contemporary sociological problems as the study of voting behaviour, alternative theories and models of society, and the changing of class structure in industrialized societies. In a final essay he considers whether there is a point at which conflict between rival political philosophies is necessarily unresolvable. For this second edition Mr Runciman has made extensive corrections in the text to take account of further work.…

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1st Paperback Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: viii, 257 pages. Contents:Prologue: the Darwinian legacy -- The neo-Darwinian paradigm -- Natural selection and evoked behaviour -- Cultural selection and acquired behaviour -- Social selection and imposed behaviour -- Selectionist theory as narrative history -- Epilogue: sociology in a post-Darwinian world. Subjects: Darwin, Charles 1809-1882. Social evolution. Natural selection. 1 Kg.…

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Hardcover. vi, 106 p.; 22 cm. `This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of the social sciences is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. This is a bold claim; but I am more concerned to vindicate the second part of it than the first. It will be enough for my purpose if his views as I read them are in fact amenable to correction along the lines which I shall propose. As Weber remarked a propos of Eduard Meyer, there is more to be learned from a major author who is wrong than a nonentity who is right.' (p. 1) -- `Summarily put, Weber was wrong on three issues: the difference between theoretical presuppositions and implicit value-judgements; the manner in which `idiographic' explanations are to be subsumed under causal laws; and the relation of explanation to description.' (p. 15) VG orig. brown boards in sl. edgeworn dj. Pages lightly toned. …

Zustand: New. Mr Runciman studies the relation of sociology to political philosophy, clarifies an number of disputed and often unclear topics in the social sciences, and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of recent developments. He examines the soc.

Torino, Giulio Einaudi, 1989, in-8 piccolo, br. edit., pp. VIII, 398, [8].

21 cm, brossura editoriale; pp. viii, 398 Leggere tracce d'uso alle copertine, per il resto ottimo Einaudi Paperbacks.

orig.wrappers. Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xviii,329 pp., PAPERBACK "In this concluding volume of his trilogy on social theory, W. G. Runciman applies to the case of twentieth-century English society the methodology ( distinguishing reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation) and theory of the preceding two volumes. Volume III shows how England's capitalist mode of production, liberal mode of persuasion, and democratic mode of coercion evolved in the aftermath of the First World War from what they had been since the 1880s, but then did not, in turn, evolve significantly following the Second World War. The explanation rests on an analysis of the selective pressures favouring some economic, ideological, and political practices over others in an increasingly complex environment,neither predictable nor controllable by policy-makers. This is supported by a graphic account of the changes themselves and how they were experienced by different segments of English society" - publisher's description.…