Best Values
Florian Znaniecki was a Polish and American sociologist whose work addressed culture, values, social action, and the methods of sociology. With William I. Thomas, he co-authored The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, published in several volumes from 1918 to 1920. Based partly on personal documen...
Hans Joas is a German sociologist and social theorist whose work connects pragmatism, action theory, religion, and the study of values. In The Creativity of Action, published in German in 1992 and in English in 1996, he argues that action cannot be reduced to rational calculation or obedience to nor...
Clyde Kluckhohn was an American anthropologist at Harvard known for Navajo research and mid-20th-century theories of culture and values.
The Price is a drama by Arthur Miller, first produced on Broadway in 1968. It brings two estranged brothers together in the attic of their late father's Manhattan brownstone, where they meet a furniture dealer to dispose of the family's possessions. Their negotiations expose conflicting memories of...
French sociologist specializing in art and values, known for empirical studies of artistic recognition and for developing an axiological turn in sociology.
