| Description |
xxiv, 370 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Techne and themis Technology, nature, and society: the vicissitudes of three world views and the confusion of realms -- Teletext and technology: new networks of knowledge and information in postindustrial society -- pt. 2. Prophets of Utopia Veblen and the technocrats: on The engineers and the price system -- Charles Fourier: prophet of eupsychia -- The once and future Marx -- pt. 3. The intellectuals and "the new class" The "intelligentsia" in American society -- Vulgar sociology: on C. Wright Mills and the "letter to the new Left" -- The new class: a muddled concept -- pt. 4. Directions of social change National character revisited: a proposal for renegotiating the concept -- Ethnicity and social change -- The future world disorder: the structural context of crises -- Liberalism in the postindustrial society -- The end of American exceptionalism -- pt. 5. Culture and beliefs Beyond modernism, beyond self -- The alphabet of justice: on "Eichmann in Jerusalem" -- Reflections on Jewish identity: the risks of memory -- The return of the sacred?: the argument on the future of religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Social history -- 1960-1970.
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Social history -- 1970-
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Sociology.
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| LC no. |
79057350 |
| ISBN |
0890115451 |
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