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Introduction to Sociology

1The Skull Readers 2The Survival of the Fittest Lie 3The Sacred and the Social 4The Iron Cage 5The Specter of Marx 6The Structure of Everything 7The Harvard Year and the Revolt 8The Luhmannian Turn 9Law, Economy, Science 10Trust as Complexity Reduction 11Power as Communication Medium 12Risk and the Production of Ignorance 13The Habermas-Luhmann Debate 14The Engineering Defection 15Sociology After the Defection

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Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence

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Niall Ferguson on History's Hidden Networks

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