Ralf Dahrendorf was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. He was director of the LSE and Research Professor at the Berlin Social Science Research Center.

• Values and Social Science The Value Dispute in Perspective Homo SociologicusOn the History, Significance and Limits of the Category of Social Role Sociology and Human NatureA Postscript to Homo Sociologicus Out of UtopiaToward A Reorientation of Sociological Analysis In Praise of Thrasymachus On the Origin of Inequality Among Men Liberty and EqualityReflections of a Sociologists on a Classical Theme of Politics Market and PlanTwo Types of Rationality Uncertainty, Science and Democracy Sociology and the SociologistOn the Problem of Theory and Practice

‘Provocative, informative, lucid, pleasurable – one could go on multiplying complimentary adjectives about these essays. They show sociology to be a discipline in which the literate and human values still flourish.’ Alasdair Macintyre, The Guardian.