50TH ANNIVERSARY (1934-1984)
Part II: Anglo-American Perspective
Volume 51  No. 2 (Summer 1984)
Joseph Greenbaum and Arien Mack, Co/Editors

 Notes on Contributors    Ordering information

Table of Contents

DANIEL BELL
Toward the Great Instauration: Reflections on Culture and Religion in a Postidustrial Age


PETER L.  BERGER
The Sociological Study of Sectarianism


STANLEY DIAMOND
The Rule of Law vs. the Order of Custom


CLIFFORD GEERTZ
Capital-Intensive Agriculture in Peasant Society: A Case Study


ROBERT L.  HEILBRONER
Is Economic Theory Possible?


DELL HYMES
Why Linguistics Needs the Sociologist


ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
A Perspective on Philosophy


TALCOTT PARSONS
Religion in Postindustrial America: The Problem of Secularization


PHILIP RIEFF
The Authority of the Past: Sickness and Society in Freud's Thought


CHARLES TAYLOR
Peaceful Coexistence in Psychology
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Notes on Contributors

(at time of publication)

Daniel Bell is Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University.  His works include The Coming of Post-Industrial Society and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.

Peter Berger, who was Editor of Social Research from 1965 to 1970, is currently University Professor at Boston University.  His most recent work is The War Over the Family, co-authored with Brigitt Berger.

Stanley Diamond is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities in the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, and a member of the Board of Editors of Social Research.  He is also Editor of Dialectical Anthropology.  His most recent works, currently in press, are The Poetics of Anthropology and Return to the River: A Narrative Poem.

Clifford Geertz is Harold F. Lindner Professor of Social Sciences at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.  Among his works are Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology and Negara: The Theatre State in 19th-Century Bali.

Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, and a member of the Board of Editors of Social Research.  He is author of numerous books on aspects of political economy, the most recent being Marxism: For and Against.

Dell Hymes is Dean, Graduate School of Education, and Professor of Linguistics and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.  His most recent work is In Vain I Tried To Tell You.

Alasdair MacIntyre is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.  His most recent work is After Virtue.

Talcott Parsons was Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.  He was the author of many books, among which were The Structure of Social Action, The Social System and The American Societal Community.

Philip Rieff is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at The University of Pennsylvania.  His published works include Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, The Triumphs of the Therapeutic and Fellow Teachers.

Charles Taylor is Professor of Political Science at McGill University.  His works include Explanation of Behavior, Hegel and Social Theory as Practice.

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