The Logical Foundations Of Social Theory
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Author | : Gert H. Mueller |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-08-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0761864393 |
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The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller’s argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it. This book analyzes social stratification as labor, wealth and power, the moral order as solidarity, ideology and morality, and culture systems as art, science, and religion.
Author | : Gert H. Müller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James S. Coleman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674312265 |
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Suggests a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior.
Author | : James Mahoney |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691214956 |
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"Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientific categories ("atoms", for instance) but not for human ones ("revolutions," for instance). Despite this, much social science research takes place from within an essentialist orientation; those who reject this assumption goes so far in the other direction as to reject the idea of an external reality, independent of human beings, altogether. Mahoney proposes an alternative approach that aspires to bridge this enduring rift in the social sciences between those who take a scientific approach and assume that social science categories correspond to external reality (and thus believe that the methods used in the natural sciences are generally appropriate for the social sciences) and those who take a constructivist approach and believe that because the categories used to understand the social world are humanly-constructed, they cannot possibly follow the science of the natural world. As the name suggests, scientific constructivism brings in aspects of both views and attempts to unite them. Drawing from cognitive science, it focuses on using the rational parts of our brain machinery to overcome the limitations and deeply seated biases (such as essentialism) of our evolved minds. Specifically, Mahoney puts forth a "set-theoretic analysis" that focuses on "sets" of categories as they exist in the mind that are also subject to the mathematical logic of set-theory. He spends the first four chapters of the book establishing the foundations and methods for set-theoretic analysis, the next four chapters looking and how this analysis fits with the existing tools of social science, and the final four chapters focusing on how this approach can be used to study and understand cases"--
Author | : James Samuel Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 993 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paramjit S. Judge |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 8131799638 |
Download Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory: Functionalism, Conflict and Action Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Raymond Allen Morrow |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1995-03-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780791422526 |
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This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.
Author | : Joseph R. Pearce |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780819195784 |
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The focus on this volume is on logic and how the logic of foundational hierarchies may be applied to clarify the relationship between sociological theory and empirical research. The author articulates a logical calculus as a method for theory construction. Contents: Introduction; The Logical Foundations of Analytical Theory; Ontology and Analytical Sociological Theory; The Social Order and Social Structure; Neo-Marxist Theories of the State; An Application of Analytical Theory to Gramsci's and Althusser's Theories of the State; The Relationship Between Theory and Empirical Research; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Author | : John Rex |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317652525 |
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These essays, commissioned by John Rex, reflect the state of sociology in Britain today. Leading representatives of the diverse ‘schools’ provide lucid accounts of their own particular approaches to this complex discipline and in doing so demonstrate the techniques described. Topics covered include the empirical study of stratification, social evolution, survey techniques, mathematical sociology, systems theory, phenomenological approaches, Weberian sociology, structuralism, contemporary Marxism, and the development of theory after Talcott Parsons.
Author | : Patrick Baert |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745639801 |
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This second edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of thought. The authors also bridge the gap between philosophy and social theory, locating the theoretical views of individuals such as Giddens, Foucault and Habermas within wider historical traditions.