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  • MAX WEBER
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book is the first account of the way in which Weber appropriated and modified sources in the legal tradition, in which he was trained, to construct his sociology. It leads directly to a new understanding of Weber's intent and his relations to the tradition of social and political theory. the book takes the reader into the heart of Weber's conceptualizations of action and s...

    $1,420.00

  • COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular controversial findings, such as the discovery of mirror neurons, have bee...

    $1,160.00

  • MAX WEBER AND THE DISPUTE OVER REASON AND VALUE
    STEPHEN P. TURNER / REGIS A. FACTOR
    The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised an...

    $1,320.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE TACIT
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Que...

    $1,320.00

  • THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and leg...

    $1,320.00