Robert A Nisbet
Biographic Data
| ID | 132480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Nisbet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nisbet |
| SIGNATURE | NISBET R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 614 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Two Revolutions
The fundamental ideas of European sociology are best understood as responses to the problem of order created at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the collapse of the old regime under the blows of industrialism and revolutionary democracy. This chapter deals with the events and changes of the two revolutions, namely: the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution than with the images and reflections that are to be found in the social…
The Unit-Ideas of Sociology
Ideas are treated as extensions or shadows of single individuals rather than as the distinguishable structures of meaning, perspective, and allegiance that major ideas so plainly are in the history of civilization. What are the essential unit-ideas of sociology, those which, above any others, give distinctiveness to sociology in its juxtaposition to the other social sciences? There are five: community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienatio…
The Sacred
There is humor and irony in sociology&s;s rediscovery of religion. The religio-sacred, far from being mere superstructure or illusion, is engrained in society; it cannot be consigned to the lumber room of history, for, as Emile Durkheim was to write, "there is something eternal in religion". At the heart of religion and of all things sacred is dogma . Fustel de Coulanges gives to the sacred and its contrast with the secular the same analytical si…
Status
The concept of social class, in distinction from the earlier concepts of hierarchy, is late eighteenth century. Central to sociology&s;s interest in stratification is its sharp distinction, from Tocqueville on, between social class and social status. This chapter suggests a kind of ideal type, a theoretical model, of what substantive social class is and what its political and economic power in society might be. The clue to the modern order lies f…
Authority
In traditional society authority is hardly recognized as having separate or even distinguishable identity. The entire weight of morality—which is typically the morality of duty and allegiance—makes authority an undifferentiated aspect of the social order, the government hardly more than a symbolic superstructure. The centrality of authority in Emile Durkheim&s;s thought may be inferred from some words he wrote on the relation between discipline a…
Community
The most fundamental and far-reaching of sociology&s;s unit-ideas is community. The idea of community holds the same pivotal importance in the nineteenth century that the idea of contract had held in the Age of Reason. Both economism and calculated politicization were required for the gigantic task of sweeping away the communal debris of the Middle Ages. For Auguste Comte, restoration of community is a matter of moral urgency. Along with kinship …
Epilogue
Alienation
Alienation is, quite as much as community, one of the major perspectives in nineteenth-century thought—in literature, philosophy, religion, as well as in sociology. This chapter suggests two fundamental and distinguishable perspectives of alienation to be found in nineteenth-century sociological thought. The first rests on an alienated view of the individual, the second on an alienated view of society. Just as sociological alienation is the antit…
The Sociological Tradition
When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America. Robert Nisbet describes what he considers the golden age of sociology, 1830-1900, outlining five major themes of nineteenth-century sociologists: community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation. Nisbet focuses on sociology's European heritage, deline…
Sea-Ice Distribution in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Information from Historical Whaleships’ Logbooks and Journals
Satellite data have revealed dramatic losses of Northern Hemisphere sea ice since the end of the 1970s. To place these changes in a longer-term context, we draw on daily observations taken from logbooks and journals of whaling vessels cruising in the Bering and Chukchi seas to investigate sea-ice conditions in this region of the Arctic between 1850 and 1910. We compare these observations to sea-ice data from 1972 to 1982, which predate the majori…
Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development
La tradition sociologique
La tradition sociologique
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society
The social philosophers
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society
Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Sociology
Tradition and Revolt: Historical and Sociological Essays
The Social Bond
The Sociological Tradition
When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America. Robert Nisbet describes what he considers the golden age of sociology, 1830-1900, outlining five major themes of nineteenth-century sociologists: community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation. Nisbet focuses on sociology's European heritage, deline…
The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes
Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development
Sociology as an Art Form
One of our most original social thinkers, according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into full stature. Sociology as an Art Form is an introduction for the initiated and the uninitiated in so-ciology. Nisbet explai…
Conservatism and Sociology
Philosophical consevatism is the major source, historically, of sociological interest in the social group, status, integration, social function, and processes of disintegration and insecurity. In its reaction to the French Revolution, industrialism, individualism, and secularism, conservatism redirected attention to those traditional and communal areas of society that the rationalists had neglected or disparaged. Through Comte and Le Play these c…
The Decline and Fall of Social Class
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
La tradition sociologique
Ethics and Bigness: Scientific, Academic, Religious, Political, and Military
The French Revolution and the Rise of Sociology in France
The concept of the social group, the nucleus of sociological speculation, is to be associated with the French Revolution rather than with ideas current during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the Revolution the church as a separate social organization was demolished and the family underwent modification, while the state triumphed at their expense. Auguste Comte was impressed by the atomization of society resulting from the disrupt…
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society
The Political Community: A Study of Anomie
De Bonald and the Concept of the Social Group
Contemporary Social Problems: An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization
Rousseau and Totalitarianism
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society
The Contribution of Georg Simmel: Comment
The Chronic Trauma: The Great Transformation, Restoration Thought and the Sociological Tradition
Paths of American Thought
Freedom and Serjdom: An Anthology of Western Thought
The Destiny of Civilization
The Politics of Social Pluralism: Some Reflections on Lamennais
Tradition and Revolt: Historical and Sociological Essays
Sociology as an Idea System
Publisher Summary This chapter describes sociology as an idea system. Working with ideas and idea systems is an enterprise that is regarded as neither more nor less empirical than working with, say, roles and role systems or status and status systems. In terms of human culture, there are two environments: (1) the intellectual, composed of ideas; and (2) the institutional, composed of roles, statuses, norms, and the like. Neither environment is in…
Rousseau and Totalitarianism
The French Revolution and the Rise of Sociology in France
The concept of the social group, the nucleus of sociological speculation, is to be associated with the French Revolution rather than with ideas current during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the Revolution the church as a separate social organization was demolished and the family underwent modification, while the state triumphed at their expense. Auguste Comte was impressed by the atomization of society resulting from the disrupt…
De Bonald and the Concept of the Social Group
The Coming Problem of Assimilation
The strain of transition from the army to civilian life will be greatest in those who enter the army in adolescence. Army discipline weakens self-discipline: in the army, status, on the whole, is not competitively achieved. Demobilization will mean the sudden loss of an orderly world and a sense of of security and belonging. Government agencies comparable to the army's mental hygiene clinics must help the discharged soldier who is groping for a r…
The Politics of Social Pluralism: Some Reflections on Lamennais
The Political Community: A Study of Anomie
Human Society
The Rise and Fall of Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Relationship Between Economic Development and Civilization. Shepard B. Clough
Social Thought from Lore to Science. 2nd Edition
Conservatism and Sociology
Philosophical consevatism is the major source, historically, of sociological interest in the social group, status, integration, social function, and processes of disintegration and insecurity. In its reaction to the French Revolution, industrialism, individualism, and secularism, conservatism redirected attention to those traditional and communal areas of society that the rationalists had neglected or disparaged. Through Comte and Le Play these c…
Landmarks in the History of Education. T. L. Jarman
Landmarks in the History of Education. T. L. Jarman
The Quest for Community; a Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Freedom and Order
The Quest for Community. A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom
The Decline and Fall of Social Class
The Contribution of Georg Simmel: Comment
Our Public Life
Sociology of Religion
Sociology as an Art Form
One of our most original social thinkers, according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into full stature. Sociology as an Art Form is an introduction for the initiated and the uninitiated in so-ciology. Nisbet explai…
Contemporary Social Problems: An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization
Ethics and Bigness: Scientific, Academic, Religious, Political, and Military
Contemporary Social Problems. An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization
Lanfant M.-F. Contemporary social problems. An introduction to the sociology of deviant behavior and social disorganization. Edited by Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet.. In: Revue francaise de sociologie, 1962, 3-2. pp. 221-222
The Political Context of Sociology.Leon Bramson
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