| Description |
xi, 464 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social theory.
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| Contents |
1. Sociology of health and illness and related topics The sick role and the role of the physician reconsidered -- Research with human subjects and the "professional complex" -- Health and disease: a sociological and action perspective -- The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud -- 2. Sociology of higher education The future of the university - Some considerations on the growth of the American system of higher education and research -- The university "bundle": a study of the balance between differentiation and integration -- Stability and change in the America university -- 3. Sociology of religion Christianity -- Durkheim on religion revisited: another look at The elementary forms of the religious life -- Belief, unbelief, and disbelief -- The "gift of life" and its reciprocation -- Religion in postindustrial America: the problem of secularization -- 4. The human condition Death in the Western world -- A paradigm of the human condition |
| Analysis |
Action theory |
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Educational sociology |
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Social medicine |
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Sociology |
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Sociology Action theory |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 434-450 |
| Subject |
Action theory.
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Educational sociology.
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Social medicine.
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Sociology.
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Social Medicine.
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Sociology.
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| LC no. |
77094084 |
| ISBN |
0029239907 |
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