Lifestyle And Social Structure
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Author | : Michael E. Sobel |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1483260283 |
Lifestyle and Social Structure: Concepts, Definitions, Analyses is devoted the relationship between lifestyle and social structure. The book begins by constructing a meaningful concept of lifestyle in order to understand and model this relationship. The general formulation of the concept hinges on the descriptive word style, defined as ""any distinctive, and therefore recognizable way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made."" After developing the implications of the definition, lifestyle is defined, by analogy, as ""any distinctive, and therefore recognizable mode of living."" The notion of social structure is then introduced, arguing that structural differentiation engenders lifestyle differentiation. The remainder of the work is concerned primarily with the modeling of this relationship using data from the 1972-1973 Survey of Consumer Expenditures, and with the concept of stylistic unity. Key topics discussed include the relationship between the theory of lifestyle differentiation and modern economic utility theory; psychographic notions of lifestyle; and the relationships between lifestyle and other key sociological concepts (stratification, alienation). The concept of lifestyle should be of interest to a broad range of applied and theoretical researchers.
Author | : Michael Edward Sobel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social structure |
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Author | : Michael E. Sobel |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Lifestyles |
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Author | : Kenneth A. Scherzer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822398753 |
Stick ball, stoop sitting, pickle barrel colloquys: The neighborhood occupies a warm place in our cultural memory—a place that Kenneth A. Scherzer contends may have more to do with ideology and nostalgia than with historical accuracy. In this remarkably detailed analysis of neighborhood life in New York City between 1830 and 1875, Scherzer gives the neighborhood its due as a complex, richly textured social phenomenon and helps to clarify its role in the evolution of cities. After a critical examination of recent historical renderings of neighborhood life, Scherzer focuses on the ecological, symbolic, and social aspects of nineteenth-century community life in New York City. Employing a wide array of sources, from census reports and church records to police blotters and brothel guides, he documents the complex composition of neighborhoods that defy simple categorization by class or ethnicity. From his account, the New York City neighborhood emerges as a community in flux, born out of the chaos of May Day, the traditional moving day. The fluid geography and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods kept most city residents from developing strong local attachments. Scherzer shows how such weak spatial consciousness, along with the fast pace of residential change, diminished the community function of the neighborhood. New Yorkers, he suggests, relied instead upon the "unbounded community," a collection of friends and social relations that extended throughout the city. With pointed argument and weighty evidence, The Unbounded Community replaces the neighborhood of nostalgia with a broader, multifaceted conception of community life. Depicting the neighborhood in its full scope and diversity, the book will enhance future forays into urban history.
Author | : Ansgar Weymann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography |
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Author | : Alfred Schutz |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780810106222 |
The Structures of the Life-World is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932 and his death in 1959. This book represents Schutz's seminal attempt to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the nature of social reality. Here he integrates his theory of relevance with his analysis of social structures. Thomas Luckmann, a former student of Schutz's, completed the manuscript for publication after Schutz's untimely death.
Author | : Robert K. Merton |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1996-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226520704 |
Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms. This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth and brilliance of his works, from the earliest to the most recent. Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda. Anchored by Piotr Sztompka's contextualizing introduction, Merton's vast oeuvre emerges as a dynamic and profoundly coherent system of thought, a constant source of vitality and renewal for present and future sociology.
Author | : Ira J. Cohen |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Social structure. |
ISBN | : 9780312003944 |
Author | : Talcott Parsons |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439138303 |
A Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different relationships merit distinct treatment for particular purposes. Parsons concludes that in the larger picture, their interdependencies are so intimate that bringing them together in an interpretive synthesis is imperative if a balanced understanding of the complex as a whole is to be attained.
Author | : Charles Lemert |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442211628 |
Social Things introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition celebrates the book's fifteenth anniversary with important updates, an entirely new chapter that addresses the environmental challenges in our global world, and many additions that bring the history of sociology up to date.