Product Description: "One of our most original social thinkers," according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into full stature...read more

The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact. Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Modern Political Philosophy (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism. Nisbet considers such subjects as power, community, culture, and the university. He deals directly with the values of authority, tradition, hierarchy, and community on the one hand, and individualism, secularism, and revolt on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the concept of community in relation to politics, religion, and revolution as viewed by major Western social philosophers

Product Description: Robert Nisbet tells the extraordinary full story of the futile pursuit of American President Franklin Roosevelt for the friendship of Russian leader Josef Stalin. The final chapter reveals the motivations which drove FDR to this peculiar quest. 3 cassettes.

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The student is introduced to the sociologist's approach to problems involving deviant behavior, family disorganization, and social dysfunctions