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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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The main concern of Dr Jarvie’s book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of ‘the way they see things’. There is the world of physical and social conditioning – where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the world of mind – where action, alternatively, seems to originate; but then there is Karl Popper’s... Read more
Part 1. Preliminaries 1. The Logic of the Situation 2. Understanding and Explaining in the Social Sciences Part 2. Case Studies 3. Between Adult and Child: Notes on the Teenage Problem 4. The Idea of Social Class Part 3. Concepts and Society 5. The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered 6. Concepts and Society
Biography
I. C. Jarvie
