On Sociology

Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

On Sociology brings together a collection of essays all written in the last ten years by one of the best-known and influential British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moved on to essays that outline a programme for a new sociological mainstream. The essays combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action, especially rational action theory. It then turns to essays illustrative of this style of sociology. The book deals with substantive topics in the field of social stratification. The final essay takes up some of the relevant issues in the history of sociology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-13
Mått:156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198295723

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Recensioner i media

On Sociology is a path-breaking book...Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the postwar fuctionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely becuase it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can therefore contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution...It is not, then, altogether implausible that the publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of the discipline.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction & Chapter 1 ; Chapter 2. The Uses of History in Sociology ; Chapter 3. Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology ; Chapter 4. Socialogical Ethnography Today ; Chapter 5. The Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data-Sets and Rational Action Theory ; Chapter 6. Rational Action Theory for Sociology ; Chapter 7. Causation, Statistics, and Sociology ; Chapter 8. Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory ; Chapter 9. Explaining Educational Differentials ; Chapter 10. Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts ; Chapter 11. Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility ; Chapter 12. Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930