Social Science and Political Theory

Citation

Runciman, W. G. Social Science and Political Theory. CUP Archive, 1969. Google Books Link

Excerpts

Page	Quote	Notes
6	”the central question is the ontological status of the objects of social science. […] when we speak of a social group, or a nation-state, or an economy, or a political system, what exactly do we mean?“
54	”Marx offers a cure for society where Weber’s analysis is carefully limited to a diagnosis”
89	”What it has been surprising to discover is just how far the voters for the different parties are ‘predisposed’ to vote the way that they do long before the start of the campaign. Voting, in fact, seems a good deal less of a decision than of a habit.”
137	Weber’s “expansion” of Marxian economic class: “The best one can do is probably ‘classes’, ‘status-groups’, and ‘parties’ (or ‘power-strata’), leaving the unqualified term ‘stratum’ for any major sub-division of society to which the vertical metaphors of high and low, top and bottom are appropriate.”
153	”history can be seen in terms of a progress from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft. […] [but] there is the problem as old as Plato’s myths of how to find substitutes for the traditional beliefs and mores which hold a Gemeinschaft society together”

Zotero Metadata

Abstract

This 1969 study considers the relation of sociology to political philosophy and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of contemporary developments.

Metadata

FirstAuthor:: Runciman, W. G.
Title:: Social Science and Political Theory ShortTitle:: Year:: 1969
Citekey:: runciman_social_1969
itemType:: book
Publisher:: CUP Archive
ISBN:: 978-0-521-07474-2