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

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

Johnston, Louis C.
Phillips, Bernard S.

Hardcover

Series: Advancing the Sociological Imagination

PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1594513716
ISBN13: 9781594513718
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
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.

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