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 theoryâ€”Durkheim, Freud, Simmel and Weber, and Park, Parsons, and Merton.

The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Levine, Donald Nathan

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political, religious, and linguistic diversity?

Greater Ethiopia: The evolution of a multiethnic society

Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political, religious, and linguistic diversity? Donald Levine's interdisciplinary study makes a substantial contribution both to Ethiopian interpretive history and to sociological analysis. In his new preface, Levine examines Ethiopia since the overthrow of the monarchy in the 1970s. "Ethiopian scholarship is in Professor Levine's debt...He has performed an important task with panache, urbanity, and learning."--Edward Ullendorff, Times Literary Supplement

Univ of Chicago Pr

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The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory

Greater Ethiopia: The evolution of a multiethnic society

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society