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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.
"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.
Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications,
Second Edition, is a comprehensive professional reference book that
guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers,
both academic and industrial, through all stages of data analysis,
model building and implementation. The handbook helps users discern
technical and business problems, understand the strengths and
weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms and employ the right
statistical methods for practical application. This book is an
ideal reference for users who want to address massive and complex
datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to
objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear,
intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving
problems using modern analytic techniques and discusses their
application to real problems in ways accessible and beneficial to
practitioners across several areas-from science and engineering, to
medicine, academia and commerce.
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is
still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals,
popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between
those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as
spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of
the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress
from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to
modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for
understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two
fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human
advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees
Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual
evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of
progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time
frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the
conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as
having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the
idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of
social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary
basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics,
philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of
Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these
areas.
The University of California at Berkeley is today best known as a
great research center and popularly remembered as a locus of campus
unrest in the 1960s. This memoir by the eminent sociologist and
historian of ideas Robert Nisbet views Berkeley from a different
perspective. Teachers and Scholars is a fascinating picture of
Berkeley as it was a half a century ago in its move to become the
most important center of learning west of the Mississippi. Nisbet
recounts his years there as student and teacher, and offers vivid
portraits of Berkeley's professors and personalities. Between the
Great Depression and entry into World War II, Berkeley was a unique
window on a Western world in turmoil. All the ideologies of the
time-liberalism, socialism, populism, and fascism-impinged on the
life of the campus. In Nisbet's view, the thirties was the last
decade of "the old Berkeley"-a school that conceived its primary
mission as that of teaching. Although research was expected of
every faculty member, its chief importance was widely held to be in
its elevating effect on undergraduate instruction. In the shift
from teaching to research, some have argued that Berkeley has lost
community and consensus while others claim that the university has
only enriched itself. Nisbet finds much to respect and criticize in
both views. His vision permits him to compare and contrast the
Berkley experience with other schools such as Harvard, Chicago, and
Stanford. Rich in intellectual and social history, Teachers and
Scholars is vitally pertinent to the educational questions and
controversies of our own time.
The primary purpose of "Metaphor and History" is to explain the
sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development.
Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range
of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does
not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth century
phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.
Instead, Nisbet finds the metaphor of organic growth and the
analogy of the life cycle--among the oldest in the history of human
thought--embedded in the pronouncements of sages, historians, and
social scientists from Heraclitus and Aristotle to Comte, Marx,
Spengler, Toynbee, Berdyaev, and Sorokin. He relates the classic
Greek metaphor of growth, applied to society; the Christian epic,
with its substance in the fusion of Hebrew and Greek ideas; and
ideas of progress, natural history, evolution, and sociological
functionalism.
This book may be considered the "biography of a metaphor" of
social development, one that has persisted through two and a half
millennia of Western European history. A sociologist's view of
history, this is a work at once of synthesis and of exploration of
the premises and foundations of social evolution and social
change.
Practical Data Analytics for Innovation in Medicine: Building Real
Predictive and Prescriptive Models in Personalized Healthcare and
Medical Research Using AI, ML, and Related Technologies, Second
Edition discusses the needs of healthcare and medicine in the 21st
century, explaining how data analytics play an important and
revolutionary role. With healthcare effectiveness and economics
facing growing challenges, there is a rapidly emerging movement to
fortify medical treatment and administration by tapping the
predictive power of big data, such as predictive analytics, which
can bolster patient care, reduce costs, and deliver greater
efficiencies across a wide range of operational functions. Sections
bring a historical perspective, highlight the importance of using
predictive analytics to help solve health crisis such as the
COVID-19 pandemic, provide access to practical step-by-step
tutorials and case studies online, and use exercises based on
real-world examples of successful predictive and prescriptive tools
and systems. The final part of the book focuses on specific
technical operations related to quality, cost-effective medical and
nursing care delivery and administration brought by practical
predictive analytics.
"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 sociology. Nisbet explains
the degree to which sociology draws from the same creative
impulses, themes and styles (rooted in history), and actual modes
of representation 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 contributing 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 sicle 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. Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) was Albert Schweitzer Professor
in the Humanities at Columbia University and before that, dean of
the College of Letters and Science at the University of California
at Riverside. Among his many books are Tradition and Revolt, The
Degradation of Academic Dogma, History of the Idea of Progress, The
Sociological Tradition, and Teachers and Scholars, all available
from Transaction. Paul Gottfried is professor of political science
at Elizabethtown College. He is author of After Liberalism, The
Search for Historical Meaning and Conservative Millenarians among
other works.
The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those
that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, "The Quest
for Community." In fact, "Conservatism" unites virtually all of
Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the
manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for
community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal
relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from
its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship
and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of
established centers of power.
Nisbet holds that although political philosophers are often
conceived in terms of their views of the individual and the state,
a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups or
communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such
groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole
object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This
conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French
Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society.
Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this
book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West
can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the
French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to
call modernity.
From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as Bonald, de
Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot, Christopher
Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer More, and
Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political conservatism
remained the same. They are centered upon history, tradition,
property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack equally the
political collectivism and radical individualism that have the same
irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at present,
conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large measure by
mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and welfare state
socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.
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.
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the
sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development.
Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range
of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does
not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth century
phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological
evolution.Instead, Nisbet finds the metaphor of organic growth and
the analogy of the life cycle--among the oldest in the history of
human thought--embedded in the pronouncements of sages, historians,
and social scientists from Heraclitus and Aristotle to Comte, Marx,
Spengler, Toynbee, Berdyaev, and Sorokin. He relates the classic
Greek metaphor of growth, applied to society; the Christian epic,
with its substance in the fusion of Hebrew and Greek ideas; and
ideas of progress, natural history, evolution, and sociological
functionalism.This book may be considered the "biography of a
metaphor" of social development, one that has persisted through two
and a half millennia of Western European history. A sociologist's
view of history, this is a work at once of synthesis and of
exploration of the premises and foundations of social evolution and
social change.
The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that
motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for
Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's
work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold
forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community.
The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of
a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive
penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local
allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established
centers of power.Nisbet holds that although political philosophers
are often conceived in terms of their views of the individual and
the state, a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups
or communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such
groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole
object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This
conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French
Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society.
Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this
book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West
can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the
French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to
call modernity.From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as
Bonald, de Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot,
Christopher Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer
More, and Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political
conservatism remained the same. They are centered upon history,
tradition, property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack
equally the political collectivism and radical individualism that
have the same irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at
present, conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large
measure by mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and
welfare state socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is
still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals,
popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between
those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as
spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of
the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress
from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to
modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for
understanding the present world.
Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks
necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of
growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key
element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all
the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of
the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and
epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear,
and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end.
In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress
remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and
natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many
disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion,
politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to
be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
This text was first published in 1975, shortly after the
resignation of President Richard Nixon, which revealed, according
to Robert Nisbet, the extreme and corrupt manifestation of a
democratic royalism that has its roots in several preceding
administrations. Nisbet argues that the political community in the
West had broken down after two centuries of ascendancy. He believes
that the West has entered a twilight age that will be characterized
by political and cultural crises similar to those that preceded the
fall of Rome. He foresees the displacement of traditional, liberal
society by centralized, collectivized power - what he terms the war
society, driven by the rising power and expense of a hugely scaled
military. Nisbet offers no prophecy of inevitable decline; rather,
he means to call attention to the problem of finding the means
generating a social order within which the individual can live and
derive a spirit of initiative.
"The Present Age" challenges readers to reexamine the role of the
United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticizes
Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of
educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of
government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to
community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving
everyday life in America.
This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and
Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralization, and
creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in
the western world. "The Present Age" relates a tragedy--the
unprecedented militarization of American life in the decades after
1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National
Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and
reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralization within
modern society.
Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), former professor of sociology at
Columbia University, is the author of "Sociology as an Art Form;
The Social Philosophers; Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary;
The Sociological Tradition; History of the Idea of Progress;" and
"Twilight of Authority," also published by Liberty Fund.
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