Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions / Edition 1

by Bernard S Phillips, Louis C. Johnston

Overview

Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists. They find substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an alternative worldview can work to close that gap.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594513725
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2008
Series:	The Sociological Imagination
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bernard Phillips, Louis C. Johnston

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Part 2 Physical and Biological Structures; Chapter 1 Isolation versus Interaction; Chapter 2 Outward versus Inward-Outward Perception; Part 3 Personality Structure; Chapter 3 “Head”; Chapter 4 “Heart”; Chapter 5 “Hand”; Part 4 Social Structures; Chapter 6 “Head”; Chapter 7 “Heart”; Chapter 8 “Hand”; Part 5 The Situation; Chapter 9 “Hand”; Chapter 10 “Heart”; Chapter 11 “Hand”; Part 6 Conclusions and Implications; Chapter 12 Connecting the Dots;