This memoir relates the tale of author Harold J. Bershady's intellectual coming of age, and is is focused not only on the author's intellectual development, but on the evolution of scholarship in the
This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics desir
One of the pioneers of modern sociology, Max Scheler (1874- 1928) ranks with Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, and Ernst Troeltsch as being among the most brilliant minds of his generation. Yet Scheler is no
One of the pioneers of modern sociology, Scheler (1874-1928) did groundbreaking work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of emotions, and phenomenological sociology. This volume comprises som
Esteemed twentieth-century sociologist Talcott Parsons sought to develop a comprehensive and coherent scheme for sociology that could be applied to every society and historical epoch, and address ever
