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Author: Talcott Parsons
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780415176477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Peter Hamilton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780415037631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTalcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.
Author: Robert F. Bales
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1317834461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1956, this collection of papers demonstrates the authors’ interest is in the functioning of the modern American family and its place in the structure of our society and that perhaps the most important function of the family lies in its contribution to the socialization of children. In view of this fact an analysis of the family with special reference to its functions as a socializing agency should contribute importantly to our understanding, both of the family itself and of its relations to the rest of the social structure in which it exists.
Author: Uta Gerhardt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1317015525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology and the central place occupied by methodology - which enables us to better understand the relationship between American and European social theory. Revealing American democracy and its nemesis, National Socialism in Germany as the basis of his theory of society, this book explores the debates in which Parsons was engaged throughout his life, with the Frankfurt School, C. Wright Mills and the young radicals among the "disobedient" student generation, as well as economism and utilitarianism in social theory; the opponents that Parsons confronted in the interests of humanism. In addition to revisiting Parsons' extensive oeuvre, Uta Gerhardt takes up themes in current research and theory - including social inequality, civic culture, and globalization - offering a fascinating demonstration of what the conceptual approaches of Parsons can accomplish today. Revealing methodology and the American ethos to be the cornerstones of Parsons' social thought, this book will appeal not only to those with interests in classical sociology - and who wish to fully understand what this 'classic' has to offer - but also to those who wish to make sociology answer to the problems of the society of the present.
Author: David G. Mandelbaum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0520376323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hannah Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0198786026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.
Author: Thomas Spence Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-06-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0226764141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings the body and its passions back into a new theory of social interaction and social order. Building on innovative conceptions of order, change, and organization, Thomas Spence Smith dramatically expands the definition of human interactions that hold societies together. Here he examines the "strong interactions," such as love relationships, attachments, and addictive behaviors, that are inherently unstable—but are integral parts of any social order. Blending physiology and psychology with historical examples of social change and a sophisticated new model of social systems, this book contributes to our understanding how societies are possible.
Author: Stephen Grunlan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-04-02
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1579106277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1134966679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major contribution to criminology in which Taylor, Walton and Young provide a framework for a fully social theory of crime.
Author: Harold Garfinkel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1317252268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the increasingly influential ways studied by phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenological description, rendered in more empirical and interactive terms, might remedy shortcomings in the reigning Parsonian view. Garfinkel soon gave up the attempt to repair scientific description, and his focus became increasingly empirical until, in 1954, he famously coined the term "Ethnomethodology." However, in this early manuscript can be seen more clearly than in some of his later work the struggle with a conceptual and positivist rendering of social relations that ultimately informed Garfinkel's position. Here we find the sources of his turn toward ethnomethodology, which would influence subsequent generations of sociologists. Essential reading for all social theory scholars and graduate students and for a wider range of social scientists in anthropology, ethnomethodology, and other fields.
