People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or things. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each man's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of THE SILENT LANGUAGE, introduces the science of proxemics to demonstrate how man's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural interacti…
This special issue tries to combine approaches from various disciplines such as social psychology, health psychology, sociology, political sciences, public health sciences, and social philosophy to discuss justice issues of the labor market with special focus on the processes and the effects of individual and mass dismissals in the course of industrial restructuring.
Since this volume is concerned with the study of sociological theories and not with the history of social thought in general, it will begin with Auguste Comte, who was the first major figure to assert and then prove by deed that a science of society, both empiric and theoretical, was possible and desirable. But to make Comte understandable the intellectual climate of France early in the ninetee…
On the surface, we might think that French classical sociological theory, like Marx's the ory, was directly and positively influenced by the Enlightenment. French sociology be came rational, empirical, scientific, and change-oriented, but not before it was also shaped by a set of ideas developed in reaction to the Enlightenment. In Seidman's view, "The ideology of the counter-Enlightenment repr…
On the surface, we might think that French classical sociological theory, like Marx's the ory, was directly and positively influenced by the Enlightenment. French sociology be came rational, empirical, scientific, and change-oriented, but not before it was also shaped by a set of ideas developed in reaction to the Enlightenment. In Seidman's view, "The ideology of the counter-Enlightenment repr…
Dalam bab ini kita akan meninjau beberapa pendekatan yang fokus kajiannya sama sekali tidak diarahkan pada jurisprudensi (yaitu ilmu hukum) dan tidak juga pada sosiologi hukum. Fokus kajiannya boleh kita bilang "berada di antara" (in-berwermers) keduanya. Akan tetapi, pendekatan-pendekatan kontemporer tersebut bersifat kritis dalam gerakan menuju suatu teori yang terartikulasi sepenuhnya dalam …
There was a time, and indeed it does not lie very far behind us, when the university trained the physician for his future profession by requiring him to commit to memory the symptoms of the vari- ous diseases and the names of such remedies for them as were known at the time. This time is past. The modern physician is a natural scientist who has chosen the human body as his field of investigatio…
This book provides a systematic introduction to the whole range of major contemporary theory and empirical research in the sociology of law. It is written especially for students of law and students of social science in universities and polytechnics, but does not presuppose any prior knowledge of sociology or previous study of law.
Buku ini sangat bermanfaat bagi para pembelajar persoalan hukum, pemerhati masalah hukum, masyarakat dan kebudayaan, para praktisi hukum dan penegak hukum untuk semakin mengerti bagaimana bekerjanya hukum di masyarakat dan atas individu serta bagaimana keduanya saling berhubungan secara saling mempengaruhi.
"No one in America has expounded Marxist philosophy with greater author- ity and persuasiveness than Sidney Hook. For this reason a book by him in which practically all Marxist doctrines are subject to some criticismis something of an event.... Some of the most discriminating and profound masoning in Hook's book is devoted to a critical analysis of dialectics."- REINHOLD NIEBUHR