Winners and Losers: Social and Political Polarities in AmericaLeading sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz examines the response social science has made to contemporary subjects and issues: the so-called "new class" of the intelligentsia, the ecology movement, social planning, alienation, privatization, anomie, the threat of nuclear war. Horowitz evaluates as a social scientist the question of values--those disclosed through analysis, and those threatened by it--and discusses the overall political and moral impact of knowledge and methodology in social science. |
Contents
Holy Ghosts in Ethnic Closets | 20 |
Environmental Options versus Economic Imperatives | 40 |
Unlimited Equality and Limited Growth | 47 |
Winners and Losers | 63 |
Presenting the Self for Social Immortality | 78 |
Futurology and Millenarian Visions | 89 |
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Political Bases of Equity Goals | 126 |
Marginality Originality and Rootless Cosmopolitanism | 192 |
Leftwing Fascism | 209 |
Multiplication of Marxisms | 220 |
Methodology Ideology and Society | 232 |
Developmental Dilemmas | 246 |
Advocacy and Neutrality in Research | 256 |
Language Truth and Politics | 269 |
Moral Implications of Social Science Disputations | 289 |
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