Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Robert A. Nisbet

Gary Miner

John F. Elder IV

Academic Press

Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Oxford University Press

  The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power.   Nisbet holds that although political philosophers are often conceived in terms of their views of the individual and the state, a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups or communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society. Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to call modernity.   From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as Bonald, de Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer More, and Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political conservatism remained the same. They are centered upon history, tradition, property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack equally the political collectivism and radical individualism that have the same irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at present, conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large measure by mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and welfare state socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.

Conservatism: Dream and reality (Concepts in the social sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

<p>When first published in 1970, this book was unique among introductory books in its emphasis upon the concepts that make sociology a discipline. THE SOCIAL BOND quickly won a significant following among students and faculty members. In this second, revised edition, the conceptual framework is maintained, as is the emphasis upon the nature of the social bond. Some of the improvements made are reorganization in the interest of sharpness and cogency; compression of several sections, notably those on the nature of sociology as a science and the problem of social change; expansion of the chapter on policy and action; updating of contents wherever required; much greater use of subheadings within chapters; and substantial reduction in the length of the book. Robert Alexander Nisbet (1913 - 1996) was an American sociologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Vice-Chancellor at the University of California, Riverside and Albert Schweitzer Professor at Columbia University.</p>

The Social Bond

Robert G. Perrin

Sociology

Alfred.A. Knopf

The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society

The degradation of the academic dogma: The university in America, 1945-1970,

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Educational

The sociology of Emile Durkheim

Twilight of authority

Politics & Government

Heinemann Educational Publishers

The Social Philosophers

Pocket_Books

The Sociological Tradition

Raj Publication

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