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Title

Sociological theory : a book of readings / edited by Lewis A. Coser [and] Bernard Rosenberg.

Publication

[New York] : Macmillan, [1969]

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Additional Authors

• Coser, Lewis A., 1913-2003
• Rosenberg, Bernard, 1923-1996

Description

xx, 748 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Sociology > Philosophy
• Sociology
• Sociology
• Sociologie > Philosophie
• Sociologie
• sociology
• 71.00 sociology: general
• Sociology > Philosophy
• sociologie
• sociology
• wetenschap
• science
• Sociological Schools
• Sociologische scholen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Pt. 1. General concepts. Culture : Culture defined / Tylor -- The superorganic / Kroeber -- The symbol / White -- The study of culture / Kluckhohn. Interaction : The dyad and the triad / Simmel -- Social action and social interaction / Weber -- The principle of give and take / Malinowski -- The principle of reciprocity / Lévi-Strauss -- The basic structure of the interactive relationship / Parsons and Shils -- Social behavior as exchange / Homans -- The exchange of social rewards / Blau. Social control : Social control / Ross -- The mores / Sumner -- The internalization of social control I / Durkheim -- The internalization of social control II / Mead -- The internalization of social control III / Piaget -- The oversocialized conception of man in modern sociology / Wrong. Power and authority : Forms of domination / Simmel -- Types of authority / Weber -- Power and status / Goldhamer and Shils -- An analysis of social power / Bierstedt -- Power and authority : a summary / Gerth and Mills -- Bureaucratic authority : the convergence of Weber and Barnard / Hopkins. Cohesion and conflict : Suicide and social cohesion / Durkheim -- Social sanction / Radcliffe-Brown -- Reciprocity as the basis of social cohesion / Malinowski -- Class cohesion through conflict / Marx -- Class identity and conflict / Sorel -- Conflict as sociation / Simmel -- The peace and the feud / Gluckman -- The functions of social conflict / Coser -- Out of Utopia : toward a reorientation of sociological analysis / Dahrendorf. Pt. 2. Self-other concepts. Definition of the situation : The definition of the situation / Thomas -- Subjective meaning in the social situation I / Weber -- Subjective meaning in the social situation II / Znaniecki -- Subjective meaning in the social situation III / MacIver. Role-taking and reference group : Play, the game, and the generalized other / Mead -- In-groups and out-groups / Sumner -- Reference groups in human relations / Sherif -- Reference groups / Merton and Kitt -- Role, personality, and social structure / Levinson -- Performances / Goffman -- Role distance / Goffman -- Role distance, sociological ambivalence, and transitional status systems / Rose Laub Coser. Pt. 3. Structural concepts. Status : Personal competition, social selection,and status / Park and Burgess -- Status and role / Linton -- The social role and the social circle / Znaniecki -- Dilemmas and contradictions of status / Hughes -- The role-set : problems in sociological theory / Merton. Class : The definition of class / Marx -- Class and the division of labor / Marx and Engels -- Are the peasants a class? / Marx -- Class and status / Weber -- Conspicuous consumption / Veblen -- Some principles of stratification / Davis and Moore -- Some principles of stratification : a critical analysis / Tumin -- A theory of social mobility / Lipset and Zetterberg. Bureaucracy : Characteristics of bureaucracy / Weber -- Some consequences of bureaucratization / Weber -- Bureaucracy and political parties / Michels -- An approach to a theory of bureaucracy / Selznick -- Bureaucratic structure and personality / Merton -- Metaphysical pathos and the theory of bureaucracy / Gouldner -- Bureaucracy, bureaucratization, and debureaucratization / Eisenstadt. Alienation and Anomie : The notion of alienation / Marx -- On the meaning of alienation / Seeman -- Anomie and suicide / Durkheim -- Social structure and anomie / Merton -- Success and opportunity / Mizruchi -- Institutionalization and anomie / Parsons -- Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior / Cloward. Social disorganization and deviance : The normality of crime / Durkheim -- The psychology of punitive justice / Mead -- Two types of explanations of criminal behavior / Sutherland and Cressey -- Family disorganization -- "I" attitudes vs. "we" attitudes / Thomas and Znaniecki -- The study of social disorganization and deviant behavior / Cohen -- Deviance by definition / Becker. Structure and function : Social structure and social function / Spencer -- Causal and functional analysis / Durkheim -- Structure and function in primitive society / Radcliffe-Brown -- Objective end and subjective purpose / Pareto
• A paradigm for functional analysis in sociology / Merton. Social evolution and social change : Population increase and the law of three stages / Comte -- Productive forces and relation of production / Marx -- Progress : its law and cause / Spencer -- The law of evolutionary potential / Sahlins -- Evolutionary universals in society / Parsons -- Social change, differentiation and evolution / Eisenstadt -- A reconsideration of theories of social change / Moore.

ISBN

• 0023252006
• 9780023252006

LCCN

69015092

OCLC

• ocm00005270
• 5270
• SCSB-150023

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library