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Also worth remembering is an "Introduction to Sociology", in pocket book format in just 150 pages, it deals with the most essential aspects of the basic topics in the areas of culture, personality, ecological environment, the group, the family and stratification, in a way that brilliantly merges the thoroughness and the accessibility demanded by his academic concerns. In contrast once again with the aforementioned work, is the exceptional series of four articles, numbered I to IV and published in numbers 36, 37, 39 and 42 of what was at the time the Revista Española de la Opinión Pública (1974/1975), under the title of "sobre la disputa del positivismo en la sociología alemana". The reader of this enlightening series, obviously written following the publication in Spain of the book referred to in the title (a compilation of the debates at the Conference of the German Sociology Society held in 1961), is presented with extraordinary conceptual and argumentative analysis. Whereas, as we have already said, the small "Introduction" was dominated by academic concerns; the series on the positivist dispute demonstrates the crystal sharpness of scientific (or if you prefer, philosophic) thoroughness that prevails over any other consideration, although expressed with a straightforward clarity that is frequently reminiscent of the most fortunate texts of his much admired Zubiri.
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