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Explaining Social Processes

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317259890
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Social Processes written by Charles Tilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.

Explaining Social Processes

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317259882
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Social Processes written by Charles Tilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.

Explaining Social Processes

Author : Jiří Šubrt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030521834
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Social Processes written by Jiří Šubrt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology. From this perspective its authors demonstrate and explain problems which they consider to be crucial for contemporary social science. These are topics of a theoretical and epistemological nature, which are nevertheless closely connected with social development and issues arising from it. The book moves from the more general theoretical questions and dilemmas raised by key social thinkers, such as those connected with the concepts of actor, agency, institutions, structures and systems. It then leads to theoretical reflections on long-term developmental processes associated with the phenomena of power and life in current societies, including globalization, identities, migration, etc. It provides a comprehensive approach to the essential questions of sociology. Lucidly written and including the latest sociological perspectives, this book will find wide appeal among social science students and researchers, and is also for the socially aware general reader.

Introduction to Sociology 2e

Author : Nathan J. Keirns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938168413
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Sociology 2e written by Nathan J. Keirns and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.

Human Behavior and Social Processes

Author : Arnold M. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136276017
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Human Behavior and Social Processes written by Arnold M. Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VI in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1962, this book offers the interactionist approach when looking at human behaviour and social processes. This book shows that interaction theory can provide us with a body of significant testable propositions regarding the relationship of self and society.

An Introduction to Sociology

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393988871
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Sociology written by Anthony Giddens and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology

Author : Michael A. Hogg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047099844X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology written by Michael A. Hogg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. The topics covered include group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health. Provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. Written by leading researchers from around the world to provide a classic and current overview of research as well as providing a description of future trends within the area. Includes coverage of group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health. Essential reading for any serious scholar of group behavior. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

The Social Construction of Reality

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453215468
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Social Construction of Reality written by Peter L. Berger and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

Processual Sociology

Author : Andrew Abbott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633676X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Processual Sociology written by Andrew Abbott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School of Sociology, provides a means for the disciplines of history and sociology to interact with and reflect on each other. In Processual Sociology, Abbott first examines the endurance of individuals and social groups through time and then goes on to consider the question of what this means for human nature. He looks at different approaches to the passing of social time and determination, all while examining the goal of social existence, weighing the concepts of individual outcome and social order. Abbott concludes by discussing core difficulties of the practice of social science as a moral activity, arguing that it is inescapably moral and therefore we must develop normative theories more sophisticated than our current naively political normativism. Ranging broadly across disciplines and methodologies, Processual Sociology breaks new ground in its search for conceptual foundations of a rigorously processual account of social life.

Social Norms

Author : Michael Hechter
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610442806
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Social Norms written by Michael Hechter and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social norms are rules that prescribe what people should and should not do given their social surroundings and circumstances. Norms instruct people to keep their promises, to drive on the right, or to abide by the golden rule. They are useful explanatory tools, employed to analyze phenomena as grand as international diplomacy and as mundane as the rules of the road. But our knowledge of norms is scattered across disciplines and research traditions, with no clear consensus on how the term should be used. Research on norms has focused on the content and the consequences of norms, without paying enough attention to their causes. Social Norms reaches across the disciplines of sociology, economics, game theory, and legal studies to provide a well-integrated theoretical and empirical account of how norms emerge, change, persist, or die out. Social Norms opens with a critical review of the many outstanding issues in the research on norms: When are norms simply devices to ease cooperation, and when do they carry intrinsic moral weight? Do norms evolve gradually over time or spring up spontaneously as circumstances change? The volume then turns to case studies on the birth and death of norms in a variety of contexts, from protest movements, to marriage, to mushroom collecting. The authors detail the concrete social processes, such as repeated interactions, social learning, threats and sanctions, that produce, sustain, and enforce norms. One case study explains how it can become normative for citizens to participate in political protests in times of social upheaval. Another case study examines how the norm of objectivity in American journalism emerged: Did it arise by consensus as the professional creed of the press corps, or was it imposed upon journalists by their employers? A third case study examines the emergence of the norm of national self-determination: has it diffused as an element of global culture, or was it imposed by the actions of powerful states? The book concludes with an examination of what we know of norm emergence, highlighting areas of agreement and points of contradiction between the disciplines. Norms may be useful in explaining other phenomena in society, but until we have a coherent theory of their origins we have not truly explained norms themselves. Social Norms moves us closer to a true understanding of this ubiquitous feature of social life.

Social Identity Processes

Author : Dora Capozza
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026399
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Social Identity Processes written by Dora Capozza and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Tajfel and Turner in 1979, Social Identity Theory has proved enormously influential in stimulating new theory and research, and in its application to social problems. The field is developing apace and important new lines of work have opened up in the past few years. The three sections of the book cover: theoretical contributions to the field; recent empirical assessments of key elements of the theory; and applications of Social Identity Theory to bring about changes in problematic intergroup relationships.

Understanding Social Inequality

Author : Tim Butler
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761963707
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Social Inequality written by Tim Butler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still central to the sociological enterprise and, indeed to political life."- Roger Burrows, University of York "A clear and compelling analysis of the dynamics of social and spatial inequality in an era of globalisation. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, human geography and the social sciences more generally."- Gary Bridge, University of Bristol With the declining attention paid to social class in sociology, how can we analyze continuing and pervasive socio-economic inequality? What is the impact of recent developments in sociology on how we should understand disadvantage? Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, this book brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed ′fact′ that the world is becoming more unequal, this book brings together the ′identity of displacement′ in sociology and the ′spaces of flow′ of geography to show how place has become an increasingly important focus for understanding new trends in social inquality.

Social Psychology

Author : Daniel W. Barrett
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506310591
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Social Psychology written by Daniel W. Barrett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a lively and accessible writing style, author Daniel W. Barrett integrates up-to-date coverage of social psychology’s core theories, concepts, and research with a discussion of emerging developments in the field—including social neuroscience and the social psychology of happiness, religion, and sustainability. Social Psychology: Core Concepts and Emerging Trends presents engaging examples, Applying Social Psychology sections, and a wealth of pedagogical features to help readers cultivate a deep understanding of the causes of social behavior.

Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work

Author : Geoffrey Bowker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317778758
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work written by Geoffrey Bowker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been vigorously debated in the systems development literature. Traditionally, developers have been trained in formal methods and oriented to engineering and formal theoretical problems; many social scientists in the CSCW field come from humanistic traditions in which results are reported in a narrative mode. In spite of their differences in style, the two groups have been cooperating more and more in the last decade, as the "people problems" associated with computing become increasingly evident to everyone. The authors have been encouraged to examine, rigorously and in depth, the theoretical basis of CSCW. With contributions from field leaders in the United Kingdom, France, Scandinavia, Mexico, and the United States, this volume offers an exciting overview of the cutting edge of research and theory. It constitutes a solid foundation for the rapidly coalescing field of social informatics. Divided into three parts, this volume covers social theory, design theory, and the sociotechnical system with respect to CSCW. The first set of chapters looks at ways of rethinking basic social categories with the development of distributed collaborative computing technology--concepts of the group, technology, information, user, and text. The next section concentrates more on the lessons that can be learned at the design stage given that one wants to build a CSCW system incorporating these insights--what kind of work does one need to do and how is understanding of design affected? The final part looks at the integration of social and technical in the operation of working sociotechnical systems. Collectively the contributors make the argument that the social and technical are irremediably linked in practice and so the "great divide" not only should be a thing of the past, it should never have existed in the first place.

Publication of the American Sociological Society

Author : American Sociological Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Publication of the American Sociological Society written by American Sociological Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1, 5-25, 28 (supplemental list in v. 26-27)

The City

Author : American Sociological Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The City written by American Sociological Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Theory, Health and Healthcare

Author : Orla McDonnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137062150
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory, Health and Healthcare written by Orla McDonnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health research, education and provision have become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few years, leading health professionals to broaden their knowledge beyond technical aspects of care. Practitioners now need a clear understanding of how society can affect health, and an appreciation of how societal structures can drive healthcare practices. In a clear, systematic and accessible style, this timely text looks at the social context of health and healthcare by: - Analysing a wide range of classic and contemporary theories; - Identifying the relevance of each theory to health; - Showing how theory has been used in research - Outlining the impact of theory on health and health provision. Specifically written for health professionals and those engaged in health studies research, this book will help students and practitioners alike understand the sociology of health and illness, and enable them to critically assess health issues, policies and practices.