A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken ...

From the perspective of system theory this text traces the way in which the system of education reflects its own unity and its own position in modern society. Sociological analysis and the availability of analytical instruments for system ...

Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the ...

Un'opera di psicologia sociale scritta da uno dei principali esponenti del Pragmatismo americano. Il volume illustra il pensiero di Mead secondo il quale la mente è il prodotto dell'interazione sociale, attraverso il linguaggio, tra più persone ...

This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our ...

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by ...

Revisiting the issues tackled in Sen's seminal work 'On Economic Inequality', this book brings together and develops some of the most important theme's of Sen's work. Sen argues that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than ...

Considers the nature and future of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age. In the first part, Habermas examines the legacy of Kant and assesses some recent attempts to return to metaphysical modes of thought. In the second part he develops and ...