The Foundation Of Sociological Theory
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Author | : Richard Jenkins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1349878359 |
This book argues that the foundations of sociology - key concepts which are necessary to all sociology, from whatever perspective - have become taken-for-granted and require re-assessment. Focusing on society, culture, the individual, and collectivity, the author builds a powerful case for an overhaul of these basic concepts, offering a unified model of the subject matter of sociology as 'the human world' - understood as individual, interactional and institutional orders - which is part of the 'natural world'. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this is a powerful restatement of the value of sociological sense as a necessary critique of common sense, and its relevance to an audience far beyond academia.
Author | : Paramjit S. Judge |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 8131799638 |
Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory: Functionalism, Conflict and Action provides an extensive analysis of classical sociological theory by giving readers an introduction to the life and ideas of all the eminent thinkers. The book begins by giving an overview of the emergence of sociology as a discipline in the background of socio-economic development that characterized Europe in 18th century. The first part of the book examines how the theorists viewed society as an organism; the second part takes cognizance of the conflict theory and third part deals with the emergence of action theory which took ambivalent position with regard to science and emphasized human agency and consciousness. Written in a very simple language, this book will help students delve deeper into the subject.
Author | : James S. Coleman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674312265 |
Suggests a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior.
Author | : Craig Calhoun |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0470655674 |
This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current influence on contemporary sociological debate. Explores influential works of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Simmel, Freud, Du Bois, Adorno, Marcuse, Parsons, and Merton Editorial introductions lend historical and intellectual perspective to the substantial readings Includes a new section with new readings on the immediate "pre-history" of sociological theory, including the Enlightenment and de Tocqueville Individual reading selections are updated throughout
Author | : Theodore Abel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Crotty |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1998-08-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446283135 |
Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory with great clarity and precision, showing students and researchers how to navigate the maze of conflicting terminology. The major epistemological stances and theoretical perspectives that colour and shape current social research are detailed and the author reveals the philosophical origins of these schools of inquiry and shows how various disciplines contribute to the practice of social research as it is known today.
Author | : Abel Theodore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gary Stanley BECKER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674020658 |
The answers to these and many other questions about people's consumption patterns, Becker argues, have to do with the way preferences and values are shaped. Although these are central topics of social behavior, they have never been addressed in a systematic and analytical way. Becker applies the tools of modern economic analysis to just this topic, one that economists have traditionally left out of their models for rational choice.
Author | : Seth Abrutyn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000331504 |
Since Durkheim’s influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any use. This book, a collection of top theorists reflecting on the present and future of the craft, addresses this most important question. Taking their lead from Jonathan Turner’s important recent work, and drawing on their own broad experience, Seth Abrutyn and Kevin McCaffree have organized the chapters in this book from the general, integrative and review-focused bookend chapters to more specific chapters on innovations in theory construction at the micro, meso and macro levels. Moreover, the book’s microsociological content on interpersonal violence, solidarity, identity and emotion coheres with chapters in mesosociological dynamics on class, education and networks, which in turn integrate with the chapters on inequality, justice, morality and cultural evolution found in the section on macrosociology. The distinguished contributors share a distinct commitment to the development, innovation and relevance of general sociological theory. This volume is an invaluable sourcebook for advanced students and social science faculty interested in understanding how sociological theory’s past and present are informing its future.
Author | : Ted Benton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014-09-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317651413 |
An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to positivist and empiricist accounts of the physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism in the social sciences in new terms. Recent materialist and realist philosophies of science make possible a defence of naturalism which does not make concessions to positivism and which recognizes the force of several of the anti-positivist arguments from the main anti-naturalist (neo-Kantian) tradition. The author presents a critical evaluation of empiricist and positivist theories of knowledge, and investigates some classic attempts at using them to provide the philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology. He takes the Kantian critique of empiricism as the starting point for the main anti-positivist and anti-naturalist philosophical approaches to the social studies. He goes on to investigate the inadequacy of post-Kantian arguments from Rickert, Weber, Winch and others, both against non-positivist forms of naturalism and as the possible source of a distinctive philosophical foundation for the social studies. The book concludes with a critical investigation of the Marxian tradition and an attempt to establish the possibility of a materialist and realist defence of the project of a natural science of history, which escapes the fundamental flaws of both positivist and neo-Kantian attempts at philosophical foundation.