Summary
Ivan Kuvačić: Introduction to Sociology
This book is intended as an "introduction to the discussion of current issues of contemporary society". The very term "introduction to the discussion" is realistically measured, because each chapter is accompanied by a discussion of key terms and problems based on the relevant texts. That is why everything presented in the first part seeks its logical complement in the "Collection of Selected Sociological Papers", which is the second part of this book. The first part of the book has already been printed in several editions, and now it is being published together with the Collection for the first time. In addition to the logo, the book has been expanded with two new chapters - About social types and Authoritarianism, totalitarianism and democracy, which the author wrote in the 1990s. The character and purpose of the book greatly influenced, first of all, the way of presentation; it strives towards clear explanations without going into a more detailed treatment of individual problems. Accordingly, numerous citations and notes below the text, normally mandatory in scientific research works, were avoided. Although I made extensive use of many foreign and domestic authors, I do not cite them directly, but by writing reference literature after each chapter. The opposite procedure would undoubtedly be more correct, but not only would the book be more extensive, but much would be lost in the immediacy and clarity of presentation, which is unacceptable in works that are intended as an introduction to the study of a certain area.
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