A01=Donald N. Levine
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ambiguous
analysis
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Author_Donald N. Levine
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collected
contemporary
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cultural
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durkheim
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essay collection
freud
historical
history
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merton
methodology
modern
natural
park
parsons
rationalism
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science
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simmel
social
sociology
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weber
Product details
- ISBN 9780226475561
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1988
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The essays turn about a single theme, the loss of the capacity to deal constructively with ambiguity in the modern era. Levine offers a head-on critique of the modern compulsion to flee ambiguity. He centers his analysis on the question of what responses social scientists should adopt in the face of the inexorably ambiguous character of all natural languages. In the course of his argument, Levine presents a fresh reading of works by the classic figures of modern European and American social theory—Durkheim, Freud, Simmel and Weber, and Park, Parsons, and Merton.
