Original scientific paper
Social Movements and Civil Society: A Theory of Social Process in the American Commonwealth
Arthur J. Vidich
; New School for Social Research, New York
Stanford M. Lyman
; New School for Social Research, New York
Abstract
A short presentation of the development of America! sociology is given in this article. The main thesis is that American sociology was born as a substitute for the Protestant and Christian religion. In that sense, sociology took the place of a theodicy and became itself a sociodicy. The authors explain that thesis, giving brief accounts of the work of different American sociologists' at the
Universities of Harvard and Wisconsin as well as documenting the thesis through the works of P. Lazarsfeld, E. Goffman, Robert Park and others. A special emphasis is given to the analysis of the contemporary streams of neo-Marxism in the USA as well as to the analysis of the conditions oi the formations of autonomous social movements.
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155816
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Publication date:
31.12.1984.
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