by Theodore Caplow and Louis Hicks
This book is an introduction to the sociological study of what Charles Summer in a more eloquent age called, "the War System of the Commonwealth of Nations," -- really two systems if we include peace along with war. It views the national governments and would-be national governments which participate in these systems as social actors and the commonwealth of nations as a giant social group that in many ways resembles social group composed of mere individuals. This perspective differs somewhat from that of the historian or the political scientist and it leads us to consider questions that are seldom raised in their disciplines, for instance about the connections between systems of war and peace and other major social institutions.
More books by Theodore Caplow
The
First Measured Century: An Illustrated Gude to Trends in America, 1900-2000
Sociologie Militaire
The Academic Market Place
Peace Games
Perverse
Incentives - The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector
Elementary Sociology
Recent Social
Trends in the United States 1960-1990
Leviathan
Transformed - Seven National States in the New Century
The Sociology of Work
The Urban
Ambience
Principles of Organization
Two Against One: Coalitions
in Triad
Old Men Drunk and Sober
Toward Social Hope
Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change & Continuity
All
Faithful People: Change & Continuity in Middletown's Religion
Managing
an Organization
American Social Trends
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