A Treatise on Social Theory: Volume 2, Substantive Social Theory - Couverture rigide

Runciman, W. G.

 
9780521249591: A Treatise on Social Theory: Volume 2, Substantive Social Theory
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ISBN 10 : 0521249597 ISBN 13 : 9780521249591
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Third and concluding volume on social theory, applying distinctive methodology to case of twentieth-century England.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species.

Revue de presse

'This is a masterpiece: in its scope and its command of historical and ethnographic detail, it is reminiscent of Economy and Society; in its systematization more gripping.' David Lockwood

'It is an astonishing bravura performance ... I have not come across another approach to comparative history which has impressed me so much.' Eric Hobsbawm

'This is an important and remarkable book. It is extremely ambitious offering nothing less than a general theory of human society, and the confrontation of that theory with the historical material. The quality of the material is commensurate with the ambition.' Ernest Gellner

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521249597
ISBN 13 
9780521249591
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
512
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Personne responsable
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9780521369831: A Treatise on Social Theory

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521369835 ISBN 13 :  9780521369831
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1989
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