Are human beings a species in constant need of firm, aggressive government to save us from ourselves? Or are we fundamentally sociable beings, woven together in a complex array of networks, interdependent and willing to work together? Sense & Sociability is a modern, highly readable, and often quirky look at human sociability by one of Canada's top sociologists. Lorne Tepperman explores why we have difficulty getting along, and why in spite of these difficulties we still manage for the most part to live together. Without interference from poor government and other malign influences, he argues, people can work out a great deal of their lives themselves. Tepperman, one of Canada's foremost sociologists, sees it as his job to look at our "unwashed" history to reveal how ordinary people doing ordinary things is the process that makes human history.
- ISBN10 0195439295
- ISBN13 9780195439298
- Publish Date 1 July 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 September 2011
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Oxford University Press, Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English