Paths of Sociological Imagination: The Presidential Addresses Before the American Sociological Association from 1946-1969, Volume 1Daniel Kubát |
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... functionalists like myself may also make them without a qualm . The characteristic general propositions of functional theory in sociology take the form : " If it is to survive , or remain in equilibrium , a social sys- tem any social ...
... functionalists like myself may also make them without a qualm . The characteristic general propositions of functional theory in sociology take the form : " If it is to survive , or remain in equilibrium , a social sys- tem any social ...
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... functionalists in sociology were , on the evidence , not success- ful . Perhaps they could not have been successful ... functionalists tried to get away from . I shall try to show this for the very phenomena the func- tionalists took for ...
... functionalists in sociology were , on the evidence , not success- ful . Perhaps they could not have been successful ... functionalists tried to get away from . I shall try to show this for the very phenomena the func- tionalists took for ...
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... functionalists themselves regard as either accidental faults or as totally alien to their point of view - teleology , conservatism , preoccupation with social statics , assumption of complete social integration - critics often regard as ...
... functionalists themselves regard as either accidental faults or as totally alien to their point of view - teleology , conservatism , preoccupation with social statics , assumption of complete social integration - critics often regard as ...
Contents
Preface vii | 1 |
Overview | 7 |
Race Relations and the Sociological Imagina | 75 |
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