The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions (The sociological Imagination) [Paperback]

Bernard Phillips (Author), Louis C. Johnston (Author)

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Publication Date: 20 April 2008 | ISBN-10: 1594513724 | ISBN-13: 978-1594513725

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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Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: Paradigm (20 April 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594513724
ISBN-13: 978-1594513725
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2 x 22.9 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,267,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bernard Phillips was a student of C. Wright Mills. He taught at the Universities of North Carolina, Illinois and Boston. Louis C. Johnston MD, MS, FACP (Ret.) was Medical Director and Director of Medical Education at Grant Hospital in Chicago until 1989.

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