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A New Science - The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology (Hardcover)
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A New Science - The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology (Hardcover)
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In this book Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology,
looking closely at how what he terms the "cash nexus"--the
omnipresent substitution of money for personal relations--was
perceived as changing the nature of human relations in the 19th
century and led to the development of sociology as a means of
dealing with this condition. Mazlish also considers the breakdown
of connections in modern society: how the orderly 18th century
world in which God, humanity, and nature were closely connected to
one another came to be replaced with one of felt disconnection, and
how individualism then came to be seen as replacing a sense of
community in modern society. He investigates the work of a number
of 19th-century English writers who were concerned with this
breakdown of connections, including Adam Smith, William Wordsworth,
Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, and particularly novelists such as
Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. He also
explores the influence of Darwin, presents Engels and Marx as
precursors of the science of sociology and discusses at length the
major founding figures of modern classical sociology: Ferdinand
Tonnies, George Simmel, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber."
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