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  • ORDER OF LEARNING
    EDWARD SHILS
    The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, dis...

    $820.00

  • TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY OF ACTION
    TALCOTT PARSONS / EDWARD SHILS
    This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth century. This is the most general statement of the general theory of action as it was developed by its principle exponent, Talcott Parsons, and his close collaborators who formed the core of the fabled department of social relations at Harvard Universi...

    $1,320.00

  • THE ORDER OF LEARNING
    EDWARD SHILS
    The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, dis...

    $860.00

  • A FRAGMENT OF A SOCIOLOGICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    EDWARD SHILS
    Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal "Minerva", being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of...

    $1,560.00

  • THE CALLING OF EDUCATION
    EDWARD SHILS
    Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. The Calling of Education features Shils's most illuminating and incisive writing on this topic from the last twenty-five years of his life. The first essay, "The Academic Ethic," articulates the unique ethical demands of the ac...

    $611.56