Persuasions and Prejudices An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science, 1953-1988

I: Philosophical Antecedents to Social Theory; 1: Sense and Structure in Social History; 2: Science and Society in the Enlightenment; 3: The Pre-History of the Sociology of Knowledge; 4: Staking Present Claims on Past Icons; 5: On the Social Theories of Fascism; 6: On Power and Statecraft; 7: Public Affairs and Private Lives; 8: History and Society in Retrospect; 9: Rationalism and Irrationalism in History; 10: Means and Ends in Nationalism; 11: Marxian Myths and Pragmatic Dragons; 12: Utility Theory as Social Theory; 13: Phenomenological Social Science; 14: Closed Societies and Open Minds; 15: Science, Religion and Natural Philosophy; II: Development and Change; 16: Politics, Labor and Development; 17: Misanthropism as Conservatism; 18: Democracy and Development in a One-Party State; 19: Taking Lives and Developing Societies; 20: The Rise and Fall of Counter Insurgency; 21: Massification, Mobilization and Modernization; 22: A Naive Sophisticate; 23: Schisms and Chasms in International Affairs; 24: Reactionary Immortality; 25: Middle Classes and Militarism in Latin America; 26: Prophecy and Postindustrial Myths; 27: Modernization as Abstract Expression; 28: Intellectuals and Social Change; 29: Personal Values and Social Change; 30: Martyrdom and Vietnam; 31: Isolation, Intervention and World Power; 32: Multinational Parochialism; 33: Power and Change in an Industrial Context; 34: The Politics of Urban Research; 35: Anthropological Sociology; 36: Militarism and Development; 37: Class, Race and Pluralism; III: Ethnicity and Religiosity; 38: Manners, Civility and Civilization; 39: Liquidation or Liberation?; 40: First Amendment Blues; 41: Community and Polity; 42: Bodies and Souls; 43: Ethnicity as Experience; 44: Documenting the Holocaust; 45: Eclecticism in Search of an American Theology; 46: The Politics of Genocide; 47: Jewish History and American Destinies; 48: The Jews and Modern Communism; 49: Jewish Soul on Ice; 50: Anti-Semitic Linchpins; IV: Social Research as Ideology and Utopia; 51: Sociological Pragmatism; 52: Behavioral Science as Ideology; 53: Social Contexts of Thought; 54: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything; 55: Law, Order and the Liberal State; 56: Is There an American Power Elite?; 57: Bureaucratic Illusions; 58: American Virtues / Washington Vices; 59: Social Psychology in a Dismal Decade; 60: Political Troubles and Personal Passions; 61: The Warring Sociologists; 62: Culture of Sociology and Sociology of Culture; 63: Is the Future an Extension of the Present?; 64: The Banality of Culture; 65: An American Rorschach Test; 66: A Postscript to a Sociological Utopian; 67: Personal Values and Social Class; 68: The Iconoclastic Imagination; 69: Malevolence and Beneficence in State Power; 70: Sociological Disinformation; 71: A Funeral Pyre for America; 72: Political Pluralism and Democratic Power; 73: Sociology for Sale; V: The Ethical Foundations of Political Life; 74: Open Societies and Free Minds; 75: Tribune of the Intelligentsia; 76: Privacy, Ethics and Social Science Research; 77: From Ideological Ends to Moral Beginnings; 78: Is a Science of Ethics Possible?; 79: The Responsibilities of Sociology; 80: The Tragedy of Triumphalism; 81: The Two Cultures of Policy; 82: Counterrevolutionary Values or National Interests?; 83: Knowledge for Democracy; 84: Revolution, Retribution and Redemption; 85: Social Theory as Revolutionary Virtue; 86: Visions of Revolution and Values of Europe; 87: Knowledge and Its Values; About the Author

Biography

Irving Horowitz