Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520030626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520030626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 1669
ISBN-13: 1317807057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.
Author: Jeffrey Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1317808614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1317808819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points.
Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 022678858X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of logical problems that all methods must address to study social causation. Almost all sociological theory asserts that some social conditions produce other social conditions, but the theoretical links between causes and effects are not easily supported by observation. Observations cannot directly show causation, but they can reject or support causal theories with different degrees of credibility. As a result, sociologists have created four main types of methods that Stinchcombe terms quantitative, historical, ethnographic, and experimental to support their theories. Each method has value, and each has its uses for different research purposes. Accessible and astute, The Logic of Social Research offers an image of what sociology is, what it's all about, and what the craft of the sociologist consists of.
Author: Raymond Allen Morrow
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-03-09
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780791422526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.
Author: Jeffrey Charles Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13:
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