This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue:
the conflict between traditionalism and modernism. Nisbet considers
such subjects as power, community, culture, and the university. He
deals directly with the values of authority, tradition, hierarchy,
and community on the one hand, and individualism, secularism, and
revolt on the other. Nisbet's underlying argument is that there is
a close historical relationship between the distribution of power
in democratic society and the displacement of social class,
kinship, neighborhood, and the church. The book challenges
concerned Americans to understand and address the basic conflicts
confronting contemporary society. In his introduction, Robert G.
Perrin shows how the chapters in this volume reflect Nisbet's
sociological vision exemplified throughout his career. Perrin notes
that when these writings first appeared, they stimulated and
informed debate on a broad range of topics such as value conflict,
leadership, community, sociology, social class, technology, and the
university. They also foreshadowed works yet to come in Nisbet's
long and distinguished intellectual journey. Originally published
in 1968, Tradition and Revolt was greeted with thoughtful reviews
in leading sociology journals. Writing in the American Journal of
Sociology, Joseph R. Gusfield called it "so welcome a publication,"
one containing "remarkable contributions to the analysis of modern
society." Nisbet's vision of Western social life as shaped by the
struggle between the dialectically opposed values of tradition and
modernity illuminates contemporary issues. Tradition and Revolt
will be of particular value to sociologists, cultural historians,
and political theorists. Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) was Albert
Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia
University, and before that, dean of the School of Humanities at
the University of California at Riverside. Among his many books are
History of the Idea of Progress, The Sociological Tradition, The
Degradation of the Academic Dogma, and Teachers and Scholars, all
available from Transaction. Robert G. Perrin is professor of
sociology and director of graduate studies at the University of
Tennessee.
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