Sociologist Thomas Scheff seeks to understand “human reality” better by
relating the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of
social structure in Emotions, the Social Bond and Human Reality. His new
approach to research in the human sciences may be important, but its
significance is not transparent—not to a general reader, that is.
Published by Cambridge University Press, £14.99, ISBN 0521585457.
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