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- Title
Comment on Sica's review of Runciman.
- Authors
Wrong, Dennis
- Abstract
Several reviews of books on social theory have recently appeared under the name of Alan Sica which have been exceptionally ungenerous in tone and full of inaccuracies. One is the review of W.G. Runciman's "A Treatise on Social Theory" in the Spring 1986 issue of this "Journal." Sica opens with a long account, not of the books contents but of the authors social pedigree, educational background, early career as a classicist, and directorship of a family business. One wonders whether it would be thought equally appropriate thus to review the biography of the son of a plumber from east Saint Louis, Illinois who had attended his local schools, studied and taught at, say, the University of Kansas, and ran a used-car business on the side. Sica does claim that Runciman subscribes, unadmitted, to the theory of methodological or bourgeois individualism that Spencer legitimated.
- Subjects
BOOKS &; reading; SICA, Alan; TREATISE on Social Theory, A (Book); RUNCIMAN, W. G.; SOCIAL theory; INDIVIDUALISM
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1986, Vol 11, Issue 4, p433
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341053