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The Elements of Social Theory
Over the past quarter century, social theory has moved in diverse and often seemingly incompatible directions, exaggerating differences of approach that existed even in earlier periods. In a strikingly original book, Barry Barnes uses this intellectual diversity not only to identify but also to unif...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; Introduction ; Part I Traditions of social theory; 1 Individualism; 1.1 Postulates of individualism; 1.2 Co-ordination; 1.3 Co-operation; 1.4 Collective action; 1.5 An evaluation of individualism; 2 Functionalism; 2.1 Functionalism and system integration; 2.2 Functionalism as ideology; 2.3 Normative functionalism and the problem of social integration; 2.4 Social norms; 3 Interactionism; 3.1 A Tudor execution; 3.2 Interactionist social theory; 3.3 The problem of collective action revisited; 3.4 Knowledge, interaction and the micro-macro problem; 4 Knowledge.
- 4.1 Knowledge and social order4.2 Knowledge and authority; 4.3 Tradition; Part II Social formations and social processes; 5 Status groups; 5.1 Status groups and economic action; 5.2 Collective action by status groups; 5.3 Status groups in context; 6 Social movements; 6.1 Resource mobilization theory; 6.2 Beyond instrumentality: new social movements; 6.3 Social movements and status groups; 7 Social classes; 7.1 ""Class"" in social theory; 7.2 Individualism, interactionism and class action; 7.3 Classes, status groups and communities; 7.4 ""Class"": what use?; 8 Administrative hierarchies.
- 8.1 The command model8.2 Impersonal rules; Coda: en route to the madhouse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.