Research Catalog

Title

Four sociological traditions : selected readings / edited by Randall Collins.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Collins, Randall, 1941-

Description

ix, 357 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This concise, engaging anthology contains the most significant and representative selections from the four major schools of sociological thought. The intellectual highlights of each school are presented, and readings range from the classics to the contemporary. Brief introductions and commentary guide the student to the key contributions in each selection. Designed to accompany Four Sociological Traditions, this anthology is entirely self-contained and may also be used separately.

Uniform Title

Three sociological traditions.

Subject

• Microsociology
• Social conflict
• Sociology
• Solidarity

Note

• Rev. and expanded ed. of: Three sociological traditions : selected readings.
• Companion vol. to: Four sociological traditions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• History as class struggle ; Materialism and the theory of ideology / Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels -- The class basis of politics and revolution / Karl Marx -- The origin of modern capitalism / Max Weber -- Power divisions as the basis of class conflict / Ralf Dahrendorf -- A theory of inequality / Gerhard E. Lenski -- A conflict theory of stratification / Randall Collins -- Social exchange among equals and unequals / George C. Homans -- Bounded rationality and satisficing / James G. March, Herbert A. Simon --
• (cont.) Tacit coordination / Thomas C. Schelling -- Public goods and the free rider problem / Mancur Olson -- The realization of effective norms / James S. Coleman -- Precontractural solidarity ; Social rituals and sacred objects / Emile Durkheim -- The social circulation of sentiments, magic, and money / Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss -- Kinship as sexual property exchange / Claude Lévi-Strauss --
• (cont.) The nature of deference and demeanor / Erving Goffman -- Social control in science / Warren O. Hagstrom -- Grid and group / Mary Douglas -- Society is in the mind / Charles Horton Cooley -- Thought as internalized conversation / George Herbert Mead -- Symbolic interactionism / Herbert Blumer -- The ethnomethodology of the human reality constructor / Hugh Mehan, Houston Wood -- Frame analysis / Erving Goffman.

ISBN

019508702X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93023445^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library