Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis
Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1317808649

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The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at ‘paradigm revision’.

Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)
Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Piotr Sztompka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1317652584

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A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure in sociological and social science theory. Contributions cover several different approaches to the agency-structure problematic, and represent the work of a number of leading international sociologists. Their efforts point to a reorientation of social theory, both on philosophical and methodological levels.

Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory
Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory

Author: Harry F. Dahms

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1783502193

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Representing a range of approaches and emphases, the chapters in this volume address and illustrate linkages between social theory and history; social theory and historical analysis as mutually supportive frames of analysis, and affinities between the history of social thought and the history of modern societies.

Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 1669

ISBN-13: 1317807057

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This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.

History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology
History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology

Author: Edwin R. Wallace

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 883

ISBN-13: 0387347089

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This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. There are no recent books covering so wide a time span. Many of the facets covered are pertinent to issues in general medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences today. The divergent emphases and interpretations among some of the contributors point to the necessity for further exploration and analysis.

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology
The SAGE Handbook of Sociology

Author: Craig Calhoun

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780761968214

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Providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates in contemporary sociology, this work brings together the leading authors to reflect on the condition of the discipline.

Social Structure and Disaster ; Symposium on Social Structure and Disaster, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 15-16 May 1986
Social Structure and Disaster ; Symposium on Social Structure and Disaster, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 15-16 May 1986

Author: Gary A. Kreps

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780874133400

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In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic theoretical issues underlying studies of social structure and disaster. The editor's program of archival research on natural disasters, social movement organizations, and other types of social structure provides a basis for discussion.

Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories
Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories

Author: Sandro Segre

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1317160517

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellectual movements within the discipline, as well as the work of individual scholars. The author provides not only a rigorous exposition of each theory, but also an examination of the scholarly reception of the approach in question, considering both critical responses and defences in order to reach a balanced evaluation. Chapters cover the following theorists and perspectives: ¢ Alexander ¢ Bourdieu ¢ Ethnomethodology ¢ Exchange Theory ¢ Foucault ¢ Giddens ¢ Goffman ¢ Habermas ¢ Luhmann ¢ Merton ¢ Network and Social Capital Theory ¢ Parsons ¢ Rational Choice Theory ¢ Schutz and Phenomenalism ¢ Structuralism ¢ Symbolic Interactionism An accessible and informative treatment of the central approaches in sociology over the course of the last century, this volume marks a significant contribution to sociological theory and constitutes an essential addition to library collections in the areas of the history of sociology and contemporary social theory.