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Sociology as an Art Form (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Sociology as an Art Form (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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"One of our most original social thinkers," according to the New
York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He
shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong
kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy
in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into
full stature. Sociology as an Art Form is an introduction for the
initiated and the uninitiated in so-ciology. Nisbet explains the
degree to which sociology draws from the same creative impulses,
themes and styles (rooted in history), and actual modes of
representa-tion found in the arts. He shows how the founding
sociologists such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel constructed
portraits (of the bourgeois, the worker, and the intellectual) and
landscapes (of the masses, the poor, the factory system), all
reflecting and contribut-ing to identical portraits and landscapes
found in the literature and art of the period. In addition to
marking the similarities between sociologists' and artists' efforts
to depict motion or movement, Nisbet emphasizes the relation of
sociology to the fin de siecle in art and literature, with examples
such as alienation, anomie, and degeneration. He creates an
elegant, brilliantly reasoned appraisal of sociology's contribution
to modern culture. This book will be of interest to sociologists,
artists, and anyone interested in how the fields relate to one
another.
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