Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity in four Western nations (the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany).
The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis—hat the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally infe
A guide to the social as well as clinical implications of the dual-drive theory of Freud's mature years: Eros versus death. Psychoanalysis continues to exert enormous influence in spite of antagonism
Kaelber (sociology, U. of Vermont) says that no other work by Weber (1864-1920) has received as little attention as his first book, the 1889 Zur Geschichter der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter
