ISBN:
9781441962218
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 434 p. 13 illus, digital)
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SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Turner, Jonathan H., 1942 - Theoretical principles of sociology ; vol. 3: Mesodynamics
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Soziologie
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Soziologie
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Soziologie
Abstract:
The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cultures are driven by macro- and micro-level forces pushing on individual and collective actors as they build corporate units and develop parameters defining membership in particular social categories.
Abstract:
The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cultures are driven by macro- and micro-level forces pushing on individual and collective actors as they build corporate units and develop parameters defining membership in particular social categories. Jonathan H.Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, and since the 1969-1970 academic year,he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more subtantive specialities,including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institututions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.
Description / Table of Contents:
Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 3; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: The Meso-level Realm of Social Reality; The Presumed Micro-Macro "Gap"; Strategies for Closing the Micro-Macro Gap; Micro chauvinism; Macro chauvinism; Middle-Range Theorizing; Conceptual Staircases; Formal Sociology; Deductive Reductionism; Dualities; Multidimensional Approaches; An Alternative Approach to Closing the Micro-Macro Gap; A Simple Conceptual Scheme; The Evolution of the Meso Realm of Reality; Conclusions; Chapter 2: Macro-dynamic Environments of the Meso Realm
Description / Table of Contents:
Environments of Corporate and Categoric UnitsThe Environment of Corporate Units; The Environment of Categoric Units; Macro-level Cultural Environments of Corporate and Categoric Units; Macro-level Structural Environments of Corporate and Categoric Units; Mechanisms of Institutional Integration and Meso-level Environments; Structural Segmentation.; Structural Differentiation.; Structural Interdependencies.; Exchange; Structural inclusion and embedding; Structural overlaps; Structural mobility; Structural domination; Structural Segregation.
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Mechanisms Integrating Stratification Systems and Meso-level EnvironmentsIntegration in Highly Stratified Societies.; Integration in Societies with Low Levels of Stratification.; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Micro Environments of the Meso Realm; Elements of the Micro Realm as an Environment for the Meso Realm; Transactional Needs in Encounters; Needs for Identity Verification.; Needs for Making A Profit in Exchange of Resources.; Needs for Group Inclusion.; Needs for Trust.; Needs for Facticity.; Culture Taking/Culture Making and Normatizing Encounters
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Status Making and Status Taking in EncountersRole Taking and Role Making in Encounters; Situational Ecology and Demography; The Arousal of Emotions; Conclusions; Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Categoric Units; Blau's Last Theory; Blau's Conception of Macro Structure; Blau's Formal Theory of Macro Structure; Revising Blau's Theory for Understanding Meso Dynamics; Modeling Blau's Theory; Macro-level Environments and Categoric-Unit Dynamics; Macro-level Structural Environments of Categoric Units; Institutional Integration and Categoric-Unit Dynamics.; Structural segmentation
Description / Table of Contents:
Structural differentiationStructural interdependencies; Structural domination; Stratification and Categoric-Unit Dynamics.; Macro-level Cultural Environments of Categoric Units; The Culture of Institutional Domains and Categoric-Unit Dynamics.; Generalized symbolic media and categoric-unit dynamics; Ideologies and categoric-unit dynamics; Meta-Ideologies and categoric-unit dynamics; Normative systems and categoric-unit dynamics; Micro-level Environments and Categoric-Unit Dynamic; Transactional Needs and Categoric-Unit Dynamics; Status and Categoric-Unit Dynamics
Description / Table of Contents:
(1) Markers of Categoric-Unit Memberships.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-6221-8
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