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Sociology
THE OVERSOCIALIZED CONCEPTION OF MAN
Dennis H. Wrong
With a new introduction by the author
The chapters in this volume represent some of Dennis Wrong's best and most enduring essays. 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'smajor areas of interest and investigation.
0·7658·0445·X (paper) 330 pp. 1998
$24.95 1£16.95
POWER: ITS FORMS, BASES, AND USES
Dennis H. Wrong
With a new introduction
by
the author
'Those who needconceptualclarificationof power should consult Wrong."
-Michael Mann,American Joumal ofSociology
' Power isafull·length,closely·packed volume, which is likely to remain for quite afew years the standard socio·
logical treatment of its subject."
-Gianfranco Poggi, Contemporary Sociology
1-56000-822-9 (paper) 340 pp. 1995 $22.95
1£15.95
NATIONAL CHARACTER
Alex Inkeles
Inkeles surveys various explicit and implicit definitions of national character, tracing developments through the
twentieth century. His approach is to examine the regularity of certain personality patterns among individual
members of asociety.
1-56000-260-3 (cloth) 532 pp. 1996
$49.951 £39.95
SOCIETY, ECONOMICS, AND PHILOSOPHY
Michael Polanyi
Edited with an introduction by R.T. Allen
This book represents the full range of Polanyi's interestsoutside of hisscientific work. The principal ideas are
contained inthree essays:onscientific revolution,the creative imagination,and the mind·body relation.
1-56000-278-6 (paper) 335 pp. 1996 $44.95
1£34.95
STATUS, POWER, AND LEGITIMACY
Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch
This three·part volume brings together major contributions to the developmentof this tradition,inaddition to anum·
berof newly written essays published here for the first time.Berger and Zelditch integrate the essays and relate them
to alarger body oftheory andresearch as they explore the importance of ageneralizing orientation in sociology.
ISBN: 1-56000-343-X (cloth) 390 pp. 1997
$49.951 £32.95
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