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The Oversocialized Conception of Man (Paperback)
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The chapters in this volume represent some of Dennis Wrong's best
and most enduring essays. Initially published as "Skeptical
Sociology, " this collection displays his ability to write
compellingly for general intellectual audiences as well as for
academic sociologists. The book is divided into sections that
represent Wrong's major areas of interest and investigation: "Human
Nature and the Perspective of Sociology," "Social Stratification
and Inequality," and "Power and Politics." Each section is preceded
by a short introduction that places the articles in context and
elaborates and often sheds new light on the contents.
The essays in the first section were written with polemical
intent, directed against the assumptions of academic sociology that
prevailed in an earlier period. Part two calls attention to the
neglect by functionalists of power, group conflict, and historical
change; Wrong shows that failure to consider them made functional
theories of stratification especially vulnerable. The third section
is more heterogeneous in subject and theme than the others; all the
essays in it touch in some way on power or politics.
Included in this volume is Wrong's celebrated and much-quoted
article "The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology."
Other significant essays reveal the author's views on many timely
topics of sociological concern, such as the quests for "community"
and for "identity"; the Freudian, Marxian, and Weberian heritages
in sociology; social class in America; meritocracy; a theory of
democratic politics; humanist, positivist, and functionalist
perspectives; and the sociology of the future. "The Oversocialized
Conception of Man" is an indispensable volume for sociologists,
political theorists, and historians.
"Dennis H. Wrong" is emeritus professor of sociology at New York
University. He is the author of "The Problem of Order, Population
and Society, Class Fertility Trends in Western Nations, Power: Its
Forms, Bases, and Uses (also published by Transaction), and The
Modern Condition (forthcoming).
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