Ideology in social science : readings in critical social theory

388 Pages·1973·12.505 MB·English

by  Robin Blackburn (editor)

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Robin Blackburn
ESSAYS BY
LUCIO COLLETTI
NORMAN GERAS
DAVID GODDARD
MAURICE GODELIER
E. J. HOBSBAWM
C. B. MACPHERSON
RALPH MILIBAND
TOM NAIRN
EDWARD NELL
MARTIN NICOLAUS
NICOS POULANTZAS
MARTIN SHAW
GARETH STEDMAN JONES
J. H. WESTERGAARD
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Ideology in
Social Science
Robin Blackburn
Lucio Colletti
Norman Geras
David Goddard
Maurice Godelier
E. J. Hobsbawm
C. B. Macpherson
Ralph Miliband
Tom Nairn
Edward Nell
Martin Nicolaus
Nicos Poulantzas
Martin Shaw
Gareth Stedman Jones
J. H. Westergaard

IDEOLOGY
IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE
Readings in
Critical Social Theory
Edited by
Robin Blackburn
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Copyright © in the Editor’s introductions and
arrangement of this selection, Robin Blackburn
1972
Copyright © in ‘Economics: the Revival of Politi¬
cal Economy’ by Edward Nell and the postscript
to ‘Sociology: the Myth of Classlessness’ by J. H.
Westergaard, New Left Review 1972
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Originally published in the United States by
Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
in 1973, and in Great Britain by Fontana/Collins,
London.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication
Data
Blackburn, Robin, comp.
Ideology in Social Science.
1. Social sciences — Methodology — Addresses,
essays, lectures. 2. Social conflict — Addresses,
essays, lectures. 3. Socialism—Addresses, essays,
lectures. I. Title.
H61.B477 1973b 300 72-11721
ISBN 0-394-71911-5
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Contents
Introduction 9
part one: critiques
x. Politics: Post-Liberal-Democracy? 17
C. B. Macpherson
2. The Coming Crisis of Radical
Sociology 32
Martin Shaw
3. The Professional Organization of
Sociology: A View from Below 45
Martin Nicolaus
4. Anthropology: the Limits of
Functionalism 61
David Goddard
5. Economics: the Revival of Political
Economy 76
Edward Nell
6. History: the Poverty of Empiricism 96
Gareth Stedman Jones
PART TWO : KEY PROBLEMS
7. Sociology: the Myth of Classlessness 119
/. H. Westergaard
8. The New Capitalism 164
Robin Blackburn
9. The English Working Class 187
Tom Nairn
10. The History of U S Imperialism 207
Gareth Stedman Jones
11. The Problem of the Capitalist State 238
Nicos Toulantzas
Ralph Miliband
PART THREE : ALTERNATIVES
12. Karl Marx’s Contribution to
Historiography 265
E. J. Hobsbawm
13. Marx and the Critique of Political
Economy 284
Norman Geras
14. The Unknown Marx 306
Martin Nicolaus
13. Structure and Contradiction in Capital 334
Maurice Godelier
16. Marxism: Science or Revolution? 369
Lucio Colletti
Further reading 378
For kind permission to reprint the essays contained in this
Reader the Editor wishes to thank the following journals and
publications. The chapter number under which the essays are
arranged in this collection is placed in brackets after the
author’s name.
The New Left Review for the essays by Martin Shaw (2),
David Goddard (4), Gareth Stedman Jones (6 and 10), J. H.
Westergaard (7), Robin Blackburn (8), Tom Nairn (9), Nicos
Poulantzas (11), Ralph Miliband (n), Norman Geras (13), Martin
Nicolaus (14). The essays by J. H. Westergaard and Robin Black¬
burn appeared in Towards Socialism, edited by Perry Anderson
and Robin Blackburn (Fontana, 1963). Norman Geras’ essay was
originally entitled ‘Essence and Appearance : Aspects of “Fetish¬
ism” in Marx’s Capital'. The essay by Edward Nell and the
postscript to J. H. Westergaard’s essay appear here for the first
time. ‘Post-Liberal-Democracy?’ by C. B. Macpherson (1) first
appeared in the Canadian Journal of Economics and Volitical
Science, October 1964. ‘The Professional Organization of Socio¬
logy : A View from Below’ by Martin Nicolaus (3) is reprinted
from The Antioch Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, by permission of
the editors.. ‘Karl Marx’s Contribution to Historiography’ by
E. J. Hobsbawm (12) is reprinted from Diogenes, No. 64, Winter
1968, by permission of the editors. ‘Structure and Contradic¬
tion in Capital’ by Maurice Godelier (13) is reprinted from the
translation by Ben Brewster in the Socialist Register, 1967 by
permission of the editors and publisher. ‘Marxism: Science or
Revolution?’ by Lucio Colletti (16) is reprinted from his book
From Rousseau to Lenin (London, 1973) by permission of New
Left Books.