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xv, 656 pages : 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 630-636) and index Preface -- PART I: THE CONTEXT: The road to sociology -- The humanistic and scientific poles of Western intellectuals -- Ideologies, paradigms, and theories -- PART II: SCIENTIFIC HOLISM: The social and philosophical origins of Positivistic organicism -- The Classical period of Positivistic organicism -- The transformation and essential disintegration of Positivistic organicism -- The foundations of conflict theory -- Major conflict ideologies of the Nineteenth Century: Marxism -- Major conflict ideologies of the Nineteenth Century: Social Darwinism -- Sociological conflict theories -- PART III: SCIENTIFIC ELEMENTARISM: The philosophical foundations of sociological formalism -- The Neo-Kantian branch of sociological formalism -- The conceptual foundations of social behaviorism -- From pluralistic behaviorism to behavioristic social theory -- Symbolic interactionism -- Further developments in symbolic interactionism -- The social-action branch of social behaviorism -- Further developments in social-action theory -- PART IV: HUMANISTIC HOLISM: The nature and origins of sociological functionalism -- Ma

Author

Don Martindale

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780395297322

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social_sciences