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Politics and Paradigms: Changing Theories of Change in Social Science

Politics and Paradigms: Changing Theories of Change in Social Science

Janos, Andrew C.

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0804713332
ISBN13: 9780804713337
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 1986
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Recent economic and political developments in the Third World and in Communist and advanced industrial societies have challenged some of the most cherished assumptions of social science, forcing social scientists to rethink many of the categories of their discipline.

In a concisely written and provocative book, the author traces this process of rethinking. He does so by going back to the nineteenth-century origins of political sociology and economy, and by exploring more recent attempts by American scholarship to fashion from the writings of Smith, Marx, Spencer, Weber, and Durkheim a new universal theory of modernization and political change. The author argues that these attempts led to a new intellectual crisis, which could be resolved only by a paradigm shift, that is, by refocusing the discipline from the classical concept of social relations to a new global concept of the division of labor and systems of exchange.

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