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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Tradition and Innovation: On the Tension between Ancient and Modern Ways in the Study of Politics -- 1 : The Condition of American Political Science -- 2 : The Impact on Political Science of the Revolution in the Behavioral Sciences -- 3 : The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest -- 4 : What Is Political Philosophy? The Problem of Political Philosophy -- 5 : Politics and Pseudopolitics: A Critical Evaluation of Some Behavioral Literature -- 6 : "Behavioristic" Tendencies in American Political Science -- Index

TWO STREAMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT WERE PRESENT AT THE FOUNDING OF THE AMERICAN NATION.ONE WAS NOTABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP,BROTHERHOOD,INDIVIDUAL SPONTANEITY AND DISTAIN FOR THE MATERIAL.A FOLLOWER WAS T.PAINE,AND ITS BASIS IS IN ROUSSEAU.THE DECLARATION AND ARTICLES EXPRESSED IT.THE SECOND WAS FOR SOCIAL ORDER,RATIONALITY AND MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS EXPRESSED IN THE CONSTITUTION BY HAMILTON AND MADISON.

This set describes a broad range of approaches that challenge scientism for its lack of sensitivity to meanings, subjectivity and historical context. It brings together a selection of writings that encompass theory and methods as well as policy and practice

Sociology Reference Guide: Early Theorists & -- the Science of Society -- Contents -- Introduction -- Enlightenment Roots -- Sociology in the Nineteenth Century -- Durkheim's Mechanical & -- Organic Solidarity -- Durkheim & -- Social Facts -- Durkheim & -- the Structure & -- Function of Society -- Marx, Social Change & -- Revolution -- Marx & -- Historical Materialism -- Marx's Political Economy -- Weber's Interpretive Sociology -- Max Weber: Religious Ideals & -- the Capitalist Society -- Weber & -- Rationalization -- Weber: Antipositivism & -- Verstehen -- History of Sociology: Modern Sociology -- History of Sociology: Contemporary Sociology -- Habermas & -- Communicative Actions -- Mills & -- the Sociological Imagination -- George Herbert Mead: Taking the Role of the Other -- Marcuse & -- Administration.

Originally published in 1983, this book locates the behavioural approach to the study of politics in its social science and historical context. The text reviews the findings in a number of fields - public opinion, electoral behaviour, political participation, policy outputs, political recruitment, political welfare and socialisation.

The dominant belief among both teachers and graduate students of political science seems to be that political theory constitutes the heart of their subject; yet political theory is not, in practice, the core of political science teaching. Such is the schizoid condition of political science and political scientists that is revealed by the investigations of the Committee for the Advancement of Teaching of the American Political Science Association. The hypothesis advanced in this note presents a dual reason for the unfortunate situation: it is partly that political theorists have failed to keep up with the times and have not engaged in sufficient value-free theoretical study of the raw data of politics, and partly that vast numbers of political scientists have falsely concluded that one of the most important parts of the traditional study of political theory—political ethics—is not susceptible of scientific treatment and should rigorously be eschewed.