Böcker av Ralf Dahrendorf

First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973.

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe's leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author's deep insight into history and political analysis.

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena.

Originally published in 1975, Ralf Dahrendorf's Reith Lectures were an important contribution to public debate, exploring as they do the theme of the new liberty and being concerned to refashion liberalism to cope with the problems and tension of contemporary societies.

Originally published in 1975, Ralf Dahrendorf¿s Reith Lectures were an important contribution to public debate, exploring as they do the theme of the new liberty and being concerned to refashion liberalism to cope with the problems and tension of contemporary societies.

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe¿s leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author¿s deep insight into history and political analysis.

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena.

First published in English as part of the Essays in the Theory of Society, this volume reissues the stand-alone Homo Sociologicus for which the author wrote a new introduction when it was originally published in 1973.

Frontmatter -- PRÉFACE À LA PREMIÈRE ÉDITION -- PRÉFACE À L'ÉDITION (ANGLAISE) RÉVISÉE -- INTRODUCTION / Aron, Raymond -- PREMIÈRE PARTIE. La doctrine marxiste à la lumière des changements historiques et des théories sociologiques -- DEUXIÈME PARTIE. Vers une théorie sociologique du conflit dans la société industrielle -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX DES NOMS -- Table des matières -- La collection sociologique

This book was written to stimulate, perhaps to provoke critical thought about Germany's past, present, and future-in Germany. This is a professional sociologist's study of the country to which he belongs not merely because it is written in his passport.

Trust and Civil Society offers an original and accessible analysis of the meaning of 'trust' in a range of critical contexts: voluntary organizations, faith associations, the economy, the state and welfare, environmental issues and charity.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West. Ralf Dahrendorf regards what has happened in East Central Europe as a victory for neither of the social systems that once opposed each other across the Iron Curtain.

The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Certainly, the open society has its own problems, not least that of citizens in search of meaning. All this raises questions for Europe which extend far beyond the all too narrow confines of the European Union.