Title | Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1985 |
Authors | Lipset, S. M. |
Publisher | New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books |
ISBN Number | 0887380514 |
Keywords | consensus, Political sociology, Social conflict, value systems |
Abstract | The first of two volumes of Seymour Martin Lipsit's major papers deals with social and political conflict and, to a lesser extent, the way in which value systems and political institutions maintain order and consensus. Together these papers expound Lipset's thesis that, although all complex societies are characterized by a high degree of internal tension and conflict, consensual institutions and values are necessary conditions for their persistence. |