The flight from ambiguity : essays in social and cultural theory /: essays in social and cultural theory. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donald N. Levine.
• Authors: Levine, Donald N, 1931-2015
• Contents: Preface 1. The Flight from Ambiguity 2. Ambiguity and Modernity 3. The Flexibility of Traditional Cultures 4. Emile Durkheim, Univocalist Manqué 5. Useful Confusions: Simmel's Stranger and His Followers 6. Ambivalent Encounters: Disavowels of Simmel by Durkheim, Weber, Lukács, Park, and Parsons 7. Rationality and Freedom, Inveterate Multivocals 8. Freud, Weber, and Modern Rationales of Conscience 9. On Subjective and Objective Rationality in Simmel . . . and Weber . . . and Parsons Epilogue: Two Cheers for Ambiguity in Science Appendix: Weber's Summary Formulation Regarding the Forms of Rationality Acknowledgments References Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301.018; Sociology -- Methodology; Ambiguity; Rationalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226056210
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