ISBN:
9781610443616
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 398 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Approaches to social theory
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Sociology Congresses Methodology
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Sociology ; Methodology ; Congresses
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- On W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki -- Opening of the Conference - James S. Coleman -- Prologue - Robert McCormick Adams -- Current Issues in Social Theory -- How Sociological Theory Lost Its Central Issue and What Can Be Done About It - Siegwart Lindenberg -- The Analysis of Diversity and the Diversity of Analysis - Morris Janowitz -- The Hidden Issues: A New Agenda - Immanuel Wallerstein -- General Discussion -- The Emergence of Sociology as a Discipline
Abstract:
Three Sociological Traditions: On Creating the Future While Creating the Past - Randall Collins -- The Development of Scholasticism - Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Two Traditions: Substantive Analysis and Empirical Research - Edward Shils -- General Discussion -- Sociology of Knowledge -- Academic Market, Ideology, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge: Physiology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany - Joseph Ben-David -- Comment - Randall Collins -- General Discussion -- Network Theory -- Social Network Theory - Edward O. Laumann and David Knoke -- Comment - Ronald S. Burt -- General Discussion
Abstract:
Structural Theory -- The California Gold Rush: Social Structure and Transaction Costs - Anthony Oberschall -- Comment - Peter M. Blau -- General Discussion -- Purposive Action Theory -- Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families - Gary S. Becker and Nigel Tomes -- Comment - Russell Hardin -- General Discussion -- Ecological Theory -- The Ecology of Organizations: Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman -- Comment - Howard Aldrich -- General Discussion -- Interpretive Sociology
Abstract:
Public Problems as Phenomena: The Shape of a Humanistic Social Science - Joseph R. Gusfield -- Comment - John Kitsuse -- General Discussion -- Organization Theory -- Firm and Market Interfaces of Profit Center Control - Robert G. Eccles and Harrison C. White -- Comment - John Padgett -- General Discussion -- Theory of Social Change -- Explaining the Origins of Welfare States: A Comparison of Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s - Theda Skocpol and Ann Shola Orloff -- Comment - Arthur Mann -- Comment - David L. Featherman -- General Discussion -- Sociolinguistics
Abstract:
Language Structure and Social Structure - William Labov -- Comment - Allen Grimshaw -- General Discussion -- Social Psychology -- Modeling Symbolic Interaction - David R. Heise -- Comment - Fred L. Strodtbeck -- General Discussion -- Social Movements -- A Theory of Social Movements, Social Classes, and Castes - Mancur Olson -- Comment - Michael Hechter -- General Discussion -- Closing Address -- Micro Foundations and Macrosocial Theory - James S. Coleman -- General Discussion -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Note:
Conference held November 9-12, 1983 at the University of Chicago under the auspices of the Russell Sage Foundation
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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