Research Catalog

Title

Tradition and revolt / Robert A. Nisbet ; with a new introduction by Robert G. Perrin.

Author

Nisbet, Robert A.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xxvii, 308 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism. Nisbet considers such subjects as power, community, culture, and the university. He deals directly with the values of authority, tradition, hierarchy, and community on the one hand, and individualism, secularism, and revolt on the other.
• Nisbet's underlying argument is that there is a close historical relationship between the distribution of power in democratic society and the displacement of social class, kinship, neighborhood, and the church. The book challenges concerned Americans to understand and address the basic conflicts confronting contemporary society."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Historical sociology

Note

• Originally published: New York : Random House, 1968. With a new introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Rousseau and the Political Community -- 2. The Politics of Pluralism: Lamennais -- 3. Leadership and Social Crisis -- 4. Conservatism and Sociology -- 5. History and Sociology -- 6. The Decline and Fall of Social Class -- 7. Moral Values and Community -- 8. Sociology as an Art Form -- 9. Power and the Intellectual -- 10. The Impact of Technology on Ethical Decision-Making -- 11. Kinship and Political Power in First Century Rome -- 12. The Permanent Professors: A Modest Proposal -- 13. Project Camelot and the Science of Man -- 14. Conflicting Academic Loyalties.

ISBN

0765804867 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98028938

OCLC

• 39354277
• ocm39354277
• SCSB-3828900

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries