Nisbet, Robert A. — The sociological tradition.

New York : Basic Books, c1966. 6th printing. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xii,349 pp. 24 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) was an American sociologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Nisbet found a powerful defense of intermediate institutions in the conservative thought of 19th-century Europe. Nisbet saw in thinkers like Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville, then all but unknown in American scholarship an argument on behalf of what he called 'conservative pluralism.' In this book he describes the sociological tradition that reaches from Tocqueville and Marx through Weber, Durkheim and Simmel down to contemporary thought. It also explores the relation of this sociogical tradition to the political ideologies of liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism.