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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dimension One Units of Analysis -- 1 The Individual vs Social Facts -- John Stuart Mill -- Emile Durkheim -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 2 Interaction and the Return of Reductionism -- Georg Simmel -- Alfred Schutz -- George Homans -- Peter Blau -- James Coleman -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Dimension Two Modes of Explanation -- 3 Explaining Social Life -- Positivism: Emile Durkheim -- Functionalism: Emile Durkheim, Robert Merton and Talcott Parsons -- Interpretive Understanding: Max Weber -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Dimension Three Key Factors -- 4 Key Factors of Social Evolution -- Karl Marx -- Talcott Parsons -- Jürgen Habermas -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Dimension Four Sociological Knowledge -- 5 Sociology and Ideology -- Karl Mannheim -- Michel Foucault -- Dorothy Smith -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Dimension Five Structure and Agency -- 6 Social Structure and its Alternatives -- Robin Williams -- Mary O'Brien -- Herbert Blumer -- Erving Goffman -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 7 New Ideas on Structure and Agency -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Anthony Giddens -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

"A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker."--Provided by publisher