The Democratic Imagination: Dialogues on the Work of Irving Louis HorowitzRay C. Rist On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I. L. Horowitz, a group of his mentors, colleagues, and students have come together to examine his work, and also engage in his writings. The work is divided into the major areas of Horowitz's efforts: Theory of Social Practice, The Sociology of Politics, Social Research and Professional Ethics, Nation-Building and Development, Cuba, the Caribbean and Communism; Religion, Culture and the Jewish Enigma, and a final segment on Publishing and the Craft of Writing. For more information, click here to go to the International Evaluation Research Group web site. |
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Genocide and Social Structure Reflections on The Origins of Totalitarianism and Taking Lives | 59 |
Communication Community and Sociology | 77 |
Democracy as a Coalition of Cultures | 89 |
Politics in the West Totalitarian and Democratic | 99 |
AntiAmericanism A Comparative Examination of Postwar Europe | 111 |
Organized Disorder Terrorism Politics and Society | 137 |
Successful Inferences and Mutating Views Horowitzs Writings on Socialist Cubas Domestic and Foreign Policies | 305 |
The Courage of a Real Lion Horowitzs Contributions to Cuban Studies | 333 |
Reflections of a Jewish Traveler An Intellectual and Personal Odyssey | 339 |
Israel and the American Diaspora | 361 |
In Pursuit of Objectivity | 379 |
Six Deconstructionists in Search of a Preferred Reading and One Sociologist Discovered to be a Deconstructionist | 389 |
You Know Something Is Happening but You Dont Know What It Is | 407 |
The Scholar as Publisher | 415 |
Policy Social Science and Action | 161 |
Professional Sociology The Case of C Wright Mills | 175 |
PolicyMaking and the Quest for an Autonomous Social Science | 189 |
Worlds of Development The Sociological Perspective | 209 |
The Sociology of Truth and Its Consequences | 225 |
Three Worlds of Development An African Context | 249 |
Three Worlds and One Future? The Korean Case of Social Development Theory | 265 |
Conscience Courage and the Cuban Revolution Studying ThirtyFive Years of a Failed System | 283 |
Planning Expeditions into Uncharted Territory | 441 |
Scholarly Productivity A Compulsive Quantifiers Appreciation | 463 |
Daydreams and Nightmares as Sociological Autobiography | 475 |
Irving Louis Horowitz A Brief Career Summary | 485 |
Critical Responses to Friendly Critics | 499 |
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