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Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the Un...

This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth century. This is th...

Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his d...

"Tradition", by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whol...

This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth century. This is th...

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education t...

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education t...

Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his d...

Throughout his long career, Edward Shils brought a wide knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. "The Calling of E...

Edward Shils's attempt to work out a macrosociological theory which does justice both to the spiritual and intellectual dispositions and powers of ...

The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education t...