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Author : Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences written by Pitirim A. Sorokin and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert K. Merton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226520927
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Science written by Robert K. Merton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collection of papers is, and is likely to remain for a long time, one of the most important books in sociology."—Joseph Ben-David, New York Times Book Review "The novelty of the approach, the erudition and elegance, and the unusual breadth of vision make this volume one of the most important contributions to sociology in general and to the sociology of science in particular. . . . Merton's Sociology of Science is a magisterial summary of the field."—Yehuda Elkana, American Journal of Sociology "Merton's work provides a rich feast for any scientist concerned for a genuine understanding of his own professional self. And Merton's industry, integrity, and humility are permanent witnesses to that ethos which he has done so much to define and support."—J. R. Ravetz, American Scientist "The essays not only exhibit a diverse and penetrating analysis and a deal of historical and contemporary examples, with concrete numerical data, but also make genuinely good reading because of the wit, the liveliness and the rich learning with which Merton writes."—Philip Morrison, Scientific American "Merton's impact on sociology as a whole has been large, and his impact on the sociology of science has been so momentous that the title of the book is apt, because Merton's writings represent modern sociology of science more than any other single writer."—Richard McClintock, Contemporary Sociology
Author : Barry V. Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pitirim A. Sorokin written by Barry V. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkably detailed, knowing, critical, and even-handed study of one of the most dramatic, complex, and prophetic sociologists of our time". -- Robert K. Merton, author of On the Shoulders of Giants. "A major contribution to the history of sociology". -- Robert Bierstedt, author of American Sociological Theory.
Author : David Haney
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137156
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Americanization of Social Science written by David Haney and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.
Author : Richard Harvey Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300146356
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Toward a Democratic Science written by Richard Harvey Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how science is a rhetorical and narrative activity--a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown argues that expert knowledge is a form of power and explains how a narrative view of science can integrate science within a democratic civic discourse, as in the movement for environmental justice in the United States.
Author : Jay Alan Weinstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442203137
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Applying Social Statistics written by Jay Alan Weinstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Applying Social Statistics is 'about' social statistics and includes all of the topics generally covered in similar texts, it is first and foremost a book about how sociologists use statistics. Its emphasis is on statistical reasoning in sociology and on showing how these principles can be applied to numerous problems in a wide variety of contexts; to answer effectively the question 'what's it for.' A main learning objective is to help students understand how and why social statistics is used. Yet, Weinstein's style and substance recognize that it is of equal-or even greater-importance that they begin to learn how to apply these principles and techniques themselves.
Author : Nico Stehr
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847876749
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Fragility of Modern Societies written by Nico Stehr and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that knowledge is now central to the modern economy and its productive processes. It is also essential for social relations, social cohesion and conflict resolution. We have moved from a society based around heavy commodities to symbolic goods, from situated markets to non-place-specific locations, from machines to software and from things to ideas. These changes produce new forms of social interaction and new perspectives on identity, practice and association. This penetrating book slices through the cliches and blind alleys of discussions around the knowledge society to reveal the tendons of contemporary change. Written with insight and panache the book explains the momentous nature of the changes associated with the knowledge society.
Author : Thomas Medvetz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190874619
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu written by Thomas Medvetz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics. Despite the depth and breadth of his influence, however, Bourdieu's legacy has yet to be assessed in a comprehensive manner. The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu fills this gap by offering a sweeping overview of Bourdieu's impact on the social sciences and humanities. Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz have gathered a diverse array of leading scholars who place Bourdieu's work in the wider scope of intellectual history, trace the development of his thought, offer original interpretations and critical engagement, and discuss the likely impact of his ideas on future social research. The Handbook highlights Bourdieu's contributions to established areas of research-including the study of markets, the law, cultural production, and politics-and illustrates how his concepts have generated new fields and objects of study.
Author : Norman K. Denzin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351489070
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Sociological Methods written by Norman K. Denzin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of contemporary and classical readings on sociological method, this book provides students with systematic analyses of each of the major strategies employed in sociological research. It may be used as a supplement or as the basic set of readings for all courses in methods. The book contains thirteen sections dealing with theory and its development; issues of sampling units; problems of developing new measurement techniques; difficulties surrounding the interview (with special emphasis on interviewing deviant, hostile, and silent respondents); the nature of causation; and a review of the major methods of proof available to the sociologist. Actual research studies, focusing in turn on the experiment, the survey, participant observation, life-histories, and unobtrusive analysis, are also included. Each section is preceded by an introduction, that defines the major issues in each paper, offers a discussion of problems not covered explicitly in the readings, and in general shows how each paper contributes to a view of interactional research processes. Because of its interactional approach, its use of classic articles, its anticipation of problems not yet formulated clearly in the literature, its illustrations of how social organizations may be studied, its inclusion of articles relevant to the social psychology of experiments, and its new statements on the ethics of research, this book will be invaluable in methods courses. Especially when used in conjunction with its companion text, The Research Act, the book provides perhaps the most original and most useful compendium available to students today.
Author : François Allisson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317173
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree written by François Allisson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto. This major essay collection reflects his wide range of interests and his seminal contributions to economic theory. It is the work of more than thirty of the most senior scholars of economics working today.
Author : Hans P.M. Adriaansens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650581
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma (RLE Social Theory) written by Hans P.M. Adriaansens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic analysis of the nature and development of Talcott Parson’s theory of action offers first an introduction to the conceptual paradigm upon which this theory is based – an introduction, that is, which will make Parson’s writing more easily accessible. Second, the book gives an explanation of the development which the action theory has undergone during the half-century of Parson’s career. Using a scheme of four theory-levels, the author indicates the crucial premises that can be distilled from Parson’s early works. He argues that Parsons, from the very start of his career, was trying to translate abstract premises into a systematically constructed conceptual scheme. The first conceptual translation, however, turned out to be vague and inconsistent in many respects, and this study offers a very specific explanation of the inadequacy of this first (structural-functional) version of the theory of action. Dr Adriaansens argues that it was not until Parsons had found his way out of this ‘conceptual dilemma’ that the premises of the action theory could be adequately translated into a conceptual paradigm.
Author : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780808400585
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Basic Trends of Our Times written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1964 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Koji YOSHINO
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1642734276
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Sociology of Altruism written by Koji YOSHINO and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-10-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of altruism from a sociological perspective. P.A. Sorokin addresses contemporary issues, presents a framework for studying altruism, and delves into the sociological and psychological underpinnings of altruistic behavior. Through a combination of theoretical analysis and practical examples, Sorokin makes a compelling case for the transformative power of altruism in society. This book is a significant contribution to the field of sociology, offering deep insights into the nature of altruism and its potential to shape a more compassionate and peaceful world.
Author : Mario Augusto Bunge
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923985
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in Crisis written by Mario Augusto Bunge and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is philosophy dead? Some philosophers have declared it to be so, and judging by some of the mental acrobatics now fashionable in postmodernist circles a reasonable person might have to agree. Though recognizing the moribund state of current academic philosophy, Mario Bunge feels that this is a crisis from which the discipline can and will recover. To overcome the impasse Bunge argues that it is necessary to reconstruct philosophy by building a philosophical system that addresses real-world problems of everyday people in a clear, comprehensible fashion. The new system must be exact and compatible with contemporary science and technology. Above all, it should shun purely academic problems. This book offers glimpses of such a system while avoiding technical jargon unfamiliar to the lay reader. It is thus accessible to the average educated reader interested in such perennial philosophical concerns as What is matter?, What is mind?, What is the nature of society?, Are there limits to our knowledge?, What are the criteria for distinguishing genuine science from pseudoscience?, and How should human rights be balanced with moral obligations? These questions will always be of interest to thinking human beings, says Bunge, and philosophy, rather than becoming a fruitless, self-referential academic game, should be the main intellectual tool for exploring and clarifying such all important issues.
Author : Conway Zirkle
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512809047
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Evolution, Marxian Biology, and the Social Scene written by Conway Zirkle and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Piotr Sztompka
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483260364
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Sociological Dilemmas written by Piotr Sztompka and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociological Dilemmas: Toward a Dialectic Paradigm aims to build a new paradigm in sociological theory by using the method of dialectical critique, patterned on the approach utilized by Karl Marx. The book explores the sociological heritage, with the theoretical works of Karl Marx as the primary basis of exposition and analysis. Chapters are devoted to the discussion of the theoretical crisis of sociology; the division of sociology between two opposing methodologies; dissociation of sociology from the prescientific traditions of social thought; and the conclusion reached by the author after an extensive analysis of sociological theories presented in the book. The book will be of value to sociologists, teachers, and students of the social sciences.
