Contributor
Edling, Christofer.
Imprint:Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011.
Descriptionx, 370 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:William Shakespeare : on social stratification / Hiroshi Ono -- Plato : seven sociological ideas for the happy life / Guillermina Jasso -- Franz Kafka : bureaucracy, law, and abuses of the "iron cage" / Joachim J. Savelsberg -- Marcel Proust : on social status and capital forms / Jens Rydgren -- George Orwell : from democratic revolution to authoritarian rule / Karl-Dieter Opp -- Robert Musil : state, nation, and nationality / Helmut Kuzmics -- August Strindberg : forms of interaction / Christofer Edling -- Henrik Ibsen : the power of charisma / Fredrik Engelstad -- Chinua Achebe : colonial anomie / Wendy Griswold -- Ernst Cassirer : science, symbols, and logics / John W. Mohr -- Cicero : persons and positions / Lars Udehn -- Charles Darwin : selfishness and altruism / Wendelin Reich -- Franois Rabelais : materiality and culture / Emily Erikson -- Emile Zola : seductions and emancipations of consumption / Helena Flam -- Fyodor Dostoevsky : on extreme political violence / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom -- Goethe : the ambivalence of modernity and the Faustian ethos of personality / Hans-Peter Mller -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck : at the intersection of sociocultural worlds / Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane -- Dante Alighieri : the afterworlds are hell for sociologists / Peter Bearman -- Galileo Galilei : which road to scientific innovation? / Roberto Franzosi -- Jorge Luis Borges : reduction of social complexity / Filippo Barbera -- Issac Asimov : impacting and predicting sociocultural change / Kathleen M. Carley -- Alfred North Whitehead : from universal algebra to universal sociology / Thomas J. Fararo -- Kurt Vonnegut : from semicolons to apocalypses / Barry Markovsky -- Jonathan Swift : political satire and the public sphere / Gary Alan Fine -- Baruch Spinoza : monism and complementarity / Ronald L. Breiger -- Isaiah Berlin : on the sociology of freedom / Margareta Bertilsson -- Bertrand Russell : insights on power / David Willer -- Immanuel Kant : an analytic grammar for the relation between cognition and action / John Levi Martin -- John Dewey : the sociology of action / Christopher Muller and Christopher Winshop -- Charles Sanders Peirce : on the sociology of thinking / Richard Swedberg -- Thomas Hobbes : on generating social order / Mohammed Cherkaoui -- Jean Piaget : sociology beyond holism and individualism / Omar Lizardo.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-344) and index.
