Frontiers in Sociology of Education

Frontiers in Sociology of Education
Author: Maureen T. Hallinan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9400715765

Scholarly analysis in the sociology of education has burgeoned in recent decades. Frontiers in Sociology of Education aims to provide a roadmap for sociologists and other social scientists as they set bold new directions for future research on schools. In Part 1 of this forward-looking volume, the authors present cutting-edge research to set new guidelines for the sociological analysis of schools. In Part 2, notable social scientists, historians, administrators and educators provide a wide-ranging array of perspectives on contemporary education to insure that scholars make creative and broadly informed contributions to the sociological analysis of schools. The contributors to this volume examine events currently influencing education including: globalization, expansion of educational access, the changing significance of religion, new family structures, and curriculum reform. Frontiers in Sociology of Education offers an innovative collection of research and ideas aimed at inspiring new analyses of schools better linked to changing societal conditions.

Frontiers of Social Theory

Frontiers of Social Theory
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780231070799

This book presents essays reflecting the current state and near-term prospects of sociological theory.

The Frontiers of Sociology (RLE Social Theory)

The Frontiers of Sociology (RLE Social Theory)
Author: Tosco Raphael Fyvel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000155730

The six essays in this volume are designed to introduce the general reader to some of the main issues in the fields of education, industry, politics, family changes and the like, which concern British sociologists. While each of the essays is independently conceived, their joint aim is to show how sociologists can use empirical methods to throw fresh light on current social problems and also to convey the distinctive approach, the distinctive view of the world towards which sociologists are striving.

Frontiers of Sociology

Frontiers of Sociology
Author: Peter Hedström
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900416569X

The 37th World Congress of the IIS focused on theory and research at the forefront of sociology and the relationship between sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This volume constitutes a sustained effort by prominent sociologists and other social scientists to assess the current standing of sociology. It is a stocktaking of the unique nature of sociology in the light of advances within the discipline itself and within a range of neighbouring disciplines. Some of the chapters outline institutional and professional strategies for sociology in the new millennium. Others trace scholarly advances and propose ambitious research programmes drawing on recent developments not only within traditional neighbouring disciplines such as history, political science, and economics, but also within the cognitive, cultural and mathematical sciences.Contributors include: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Raymond Boudon, Richard Breen, Christofer R. Edling, S. N. Eisenstadt, Jack Goldstone, Philip Gorski, Peter Gärdenfors, Ulf Hannerz, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Jens Rydgren, Neil Smelser, Aage B. Sørensen, Richard Swedberg, Piotr Sztompka, Peter Wagner and Björn Wittrock.

New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology

New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology
Author: Masamichi S. Sasaki
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004170340

This book is a collection of notable papers from the first six volumes of the journal "Comparative Sociology." Its content represents leading-edge and contemporarily astute analyses in the burgeoning science of comparative sociology, especially relevant to a globalizing world in transition. Given that not everyone is acquainted with comparative sociology, this book offers an opportunity to enlighten readers unfamiliar with the discipline about the importance of comparative sociology to the new world order. Taken together, the articles illuminate various aspects of comparative sociologya "theoretical, methodological, substantive. Some compare social entities in subjective, case-study fashion, while others report on rigorous social research. All contribute in one form or another to describing the many and varied facets of the exciting a oenewa science of comparative sociology. The content of this volume has previously been published in "Comparative Sociology" volumes 1 a " 6.3.

New Horizons in Sociological Theory and Research

New Horizons in Sociological Theory and Research
Author: Luigi Tomasi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000160254

This title was first published in 2001. This book tackles the important issue of the tasks that confront sociology in the third millennium. It examines the sociological interpretations of the World-Wide revolution which - amid unprecedented scientific and technological progress and the globalization of markets - has generated new inequalities, poverty, structural unemployment and mass conditionings. A number of the most distinguished living sociologists (including Boudon, Beck, Eisenstadt, Tiryakain, Wieviorka) furnish profound and innovative interpretations of changes in world society, while outlining the frontiers of sociological research for the 21st Century. The contributions to the book not only prompt reflection on the structure and organization of sociological research, but also revitalize sociological inquiry by conducting original and stimulating analysis of theoretical and methodological issues - an undertaking essential for the survival of the discipline itself.

Frontiers in Social Movement Theory

Frontiers in Social Movement Theory
Author: Assoc Professor Carol McClurg Mueller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300054866

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories currently in use.