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Author : Peter Heintz
Publisher : Bern : H. Huber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Macrosociological Theory of Societal Systems written by Peter Heintz and published by Bern : H. Huber. This book was released on 1972 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. M. Barbalet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521003599
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure written by J. M. Barbalet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.
Author : Frank W. Elwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927356227
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Sociocultural Systems written by Frank W. Elwell and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macrosociology--the study of large-scale social structures and the fundamental principles of social organization--was the style of sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, the social theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer (among others) are commonly studied as part of the history of the field, but, although the macrosociological approach that these thinkers advocated is still employed, it no longer dominates the discipline. Instead, sociologists typically adopt a narrower focus, specializing in areas such as social psychology, medicine, religion, or the study of social stratification. Examining the bigger picture is a task often left to public intellectuals.Sociocultural Systems aims to reinstate macrosciology as the heart of the discipline by demonstrating that both classical and contemporary macrosociologists stand upon common ground. Focusing on the broad issues that concerned the founders, Elwell addresses questions such as: Historically, what factors accounted for the origin, survival, and evolution of sociocultural systems? Why were some societies more technologically advanced than others? What is the origin of capitalism? What factors determine the allocation of goods and services within and among societies? What effects do changes in government and economic institutions have on communities?Elwell argues that, as evolution does for biology, the macrosociological paradigm offers an analytical strategy that can be used both to guide and prioritize research in all of the myriad specialties within sociology and to lay forth an orderly body of knowledge for students. Clearly articulating important sociological principles, Sociocultural Systems provides a critical understanding of social institutions and issues, while also furnishing a framework for possible solutions to the perennial social crises that are part and parcel of the development of human societies.
Author : Peter M. Blau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351313029
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Crosscutting Social Circles written by Peter M. Blau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the Influence social structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed among social positions. Examples are a community's racial composition, division of labor, ethnic heterogeneity, income Inequality, or the extent to which educational differences are related to income differences. Blau and Schwartz test their theory by considering its impact on such structural conditions as intermarriage, an important form of intergroup relations.The authors derive the main principles of previously formulated theories of intergroup relations and present them in simpler and clearer form. They empirically test the power of the theory by analyzing its ability to predict how social structure affects intermarriage in the largest American cities, where three-fifths of the American population live. They selected cities because population distribution of a small neighborhood might be affected by casual associations among neighbors; it is much more sociologically interesting if population distribution also affects mate selection in a city of millions.Unlike most theories that emphasize the implications of such cultural orientations as shared values and common norms, this volume focuses on the significance of various forms of inequality and heterogeneity. As one of the few books that supplies a large-scale empirical test of implications of a theory, Crosscutting Social Circles serves as a model. The new introduction by Peter Blau reviews the origins and impact of the book. It will be of immense value to sociologists, psychologists, and group relations specialists.
Author : Frank W. Elwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256506
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Macrosociology written by Frank W. Elwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social theorists dwell on the canonical works of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim but little on the theories of the major contemporary macrotheorists. This book fills this gap with a focus on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical social theory. C. Wright Mills, Marvin Harris, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Gerhard Lenski have examined such phenomena and processes as the rise and impact of capitalism; the centralization and enlargement of authority; inequality; and the historical intensification of production and populations. Borrowing what is useful from the classics as well as relying on contemporary practitioners and empirical evidence, each theorist adds his own insights and interpretations in constructing a comprehensive perspective of sociocultural stability and change. This book fully synthesizes and documents each perspective, using language and examples that resonate with the general reader. A short biography on each theorist is also provided.
Author : Raymond Allen Morrow
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422526
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Social Theory and Education written by Raymond Allen Morrow and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665284
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Constitution of Society written by Anthony Giddens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens's concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.
Author : Katayoun Baghai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131705346X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review written by Katayoun Baghai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of classical and contemporary sociological debates about law and society, it observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally differentiated legal system. This allows close investigation of the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of rights, both in legal terms and in relation to structural transformations of modern society. The result is a thought-provoking account of conceptual and doctrinal developments concerning racial discrimination, race-based affirmative action, freedom of religion, and prohibition of its establishment, detailing the Court’s response to boundary tensions between functionally differentiated social systems. Preliminary examination of the European Court of Human Rights’ privacy jurisprudence suggests the pertinence of the analytic framework to other rights and jurisdictions. This contribution is particularly timely in the context of increasing appeals to fundamental rights around the world and the growing role of national and international high courts in determining their concrete meanings.
Author : C N Shankar Rao
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9355017642
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Sociology for B.A. Students Semester I: Fundamental Sociology and Introduction to Sociology ( NEP 2020 Jammu) written by C N Shankar Rao and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has been written to meet the needs of B.A first semester students of Sociology for the University of Jammu under the recommended National Education Policy 2020. It comprehensively covers the syllabus of both major and minor courses, namely Fundamental Sociology and Introduction to Sociology. This book has been divided into four units, comprising of eight chapters. Important fundamental concepts of sociology like, genesis of sociology, sociological perspectives: macro & micro and social institutions including its types & function have been aptly discussed. The book contains simple, lucid and precise explanation of the topics so that it becomes students friendly. This textbook can also be useful for students of sociology studying at the undergraduate level in all the other universities across India.
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520057869
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Micro-macro Link written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of fifteen nationally and internationally known theorists in sociology, this volume demonstrates an exciting new trend in sociological thinking. Each essay proposes a link between the two distinguishable traditions of sociological theory--the microscopic, which stresses the self and the interaction among persons, and the macroscopic, which concentrates on the institutional, cultural, and societal levels. Each mode of analysis has had its champions, and the proponents of each have often taken positions of polemic opposition to one another.
Author : Austin Harrington
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415290465
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Theory written by Austin Harrington and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Social Theory cuts across all relevant disciplines, theories, approaches, and schools to present the latest information and research.
Author : Kenneth D. Bailey
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400562
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Social Entropy Theory written by Kenneth D. Bailey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Entropy Theory illuminates the fundamental problems of societal analysis with a nonequilibrium approach, a new frame of reference built upon contemporary macrological principles, including general systems theory and information theory. Social entropy theory, using Shannon's H and the entropy concept, avoids the common (and often artificial) separation of theory and method in sociology. The hallmark of the volume is integration, as seen in the author's interdisciplinary discussions of equilibrium, entropy, and homeostasis. Unique features of the book are the introduction of the three-level model of social measurement, the theory of allocation, the concepts of global-mutable-immutable, discussion of order and power, and a large set of testable hypotheses.
Author : S N Eisenstadt
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Macro-Sociological Theory written by S N Eisenstadt and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and much needed two-volume work takes stock of the new approaches in sociology which have developed since the 1960s. It presents, from different vantage points, the major dimensions of recent theoretical controversy and highlights the growing recognition of problems common to all areas of sociological endeavour. Significant new contributions to ethnomethodology, to social psychology and to the study of institutions are examined in Macro-Sociological Theory and its companion volume, Micro-Sociological Theory . Together they show that the traditional line of division between `structuralist' macro-theories and `interactionist' micro-theories is increasingly being eroded. These stim
Author : Francisco Parra-Luna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306463099
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Performance of Social Systems written by Francisco Parra-Luna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parra-Luna (politics and sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) presents 18 contributions which attempt to build models that can measure and analyze output/input quotients of global efficiency (i.e., satisfaction in goals) in the study of complex social systems--a topic which he argues has been incomprehensibly ignored by the social sciences. The papers are organized into sections on the definition of values, models for defining social performance, and operational approaches to the concept of social performance. Some articles explore the topic from the perspective of the global system, while others focus on specific areas within the social system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199683581
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Sociology written by John Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coverage is extensive, and includes terms from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy and political science. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Flaminio Squazzoni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642011098
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences written by Flaminio Squazzoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the revised versions of the invited and selected papers that were presented at the Second EPOS––Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation––Workshop, held in Brescia, Italy, in October 2006. EPOS is a bi-annual cross-disciplinary workshop on simulation originally established by Ulrich Frank and Klaus G. Troitzsch, with a first e- tion held in Koblenz in July 2004. EPOS aims to provide a forum for scholars from various disciplines, such as the social sciences, computer sciences, engineering and natural sciences, who are interested in discussing epistemological aspects of computer simulation across disciplinary boundaries. The common belief behind the workshop is the recognition that the time has come to seriously reflect on epistemological and methodological preconditions, processes and consequences of simulation as a research tool. During the fist edition in Koblenz 2004, a number of interesting topics were ca- fully addressed: the link between theory and simulation models, the empirical vali- tion of agent-based models in the natural and the social sciences, the relation between models and truth, as well as the role of stylized facts in evidence-based models. A good cross-disciplinary atmosphere permeated the workshop, making possible the exchange of knowledge and ideas beyond any disciplinary boundary. The first EPOS proceedings were edited by Ulrich Frank and Klaus G. Troitzsch and published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005.
Author : Thomas J. Fararo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401701237
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Generating Images of Stratification written by Thomas J. Fararo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail: -Self-contained presentation - In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods the book provides clear and simple accounts accompanied by examples. - A theoretical research program - The emphasis is on theory development, involving a series of theoretical models constructed within a core framework of principles and methods. - Deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality - We know from research that how people perceive the stratification system of a society depends upon their position in that system. So the problem is: What process generates this regularity and thereby explains empirical generalizations about the social structuration of images? - Constructs generative theoretical models - The book is an extended presentation of "generative theory" in sociology, a formal method of producing effective theoretical explanations. Generating Images of Stratification is of interest to mathematical sociologists and formal theorists in sociology; sociologists interested in social stratification; methodologists, both in sociology and in other fields; philosophers of social science; and theoretical scientists and mathematicians who are interested in applying their analytical tools to social science topics.
