The Specialized Society: The Plight of the Individual in an Age of Individualism

by Fathali M. Moghaddam

This book offers a broad-based critical examination of the consequences--moral, psychological, sociological, educational, and economic--of increasing specialization in today's world. According to the author, we have now reached a stage where the education and professional work of both elite and non-elite groups are so narrowly focused as to diminish both the individual and society. The development of the complete individual has given way to the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956709
• ISBN13: 9780275956707
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"