The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or suitable to explain individual and collective action in institutional contexts? Professor Stinchcombe was one of the first sociologists to write on this question; and this collection includes a new essay which takes account of recent work done in the tradition Stinchcombe did much to institute. The first group of essays - on class, stratification and mobility - addresses core problems of the discipline and offers imaginative conceptualizations with interesting empirical consequences. The second section - essays on the sociology of organizations - displays, like the first, Stinchcombe's wide knowledge of sociological traditions from structuralism to Marxism. The final section, 'comments on the discipline', deepens the readers understanding of sociological theorizing by presenting different modes of analysis of universities and research institutions and providing challenging, and often funny, insights into the subject.
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fiduciary exchanges, petty bourgeois services, socially structured alternatives, interdependent case, bureaucratic industries, age premium, potential subsidiary, rural class relations, journal editing, ecological range, craft administration, small skilled, fat queens, routine science, labor market structures, institutional completeness, unpaid family labor, industrial labor markets, classical capitalist, mythical system, open labor market, fiduciary relations, attainment model, structural place, kinship institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Max Weber, New York, World War, Social Democratic, American South, Structure of Social Action, Clifford Geertz, Paul Veyne, Soviet Union, Thorstein Veblen, Clan of the Elk, Durkheim's Suicide, Erving Goffman, George Herbert Mead, Low Countries, Norwegian Central Statistical Bureau, Saudi Arabia, Herbert Simon, John Stuart Mill, Latin America, New Orleans, South Africa New!
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fiduciary exchanges, petty bourgeois services, socially structured alternatives, interdependent case, bureaucratic industries, age premium, potential subsidiary, rural class relations, journal editing, ecological range, craft administration, small skilled, fat queens, routine science, labor market structures, institutional completeness, unpaid family labor, industrial labor markets, classical capitalist, mythical system, open labor market, fiduciary relations, attainment model, structural place, kinship institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Max Weber, New York, World War, Social Democratic, American South, Structure of Social Action, Clifford Geertz, Paul Veyne, Soviet Union, Thorstein Veblen, Clan of the Elk, Durkheim's Suicide, Erving Goffman, George Herbert Mead, Low Countries, Norwegian Central Statistical Bureau, Saudi Arabia, Herbert Simon, John Stuart Mill, Latin America, New Orleans, South Africa New!
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- The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1: Marshall, Pareto, Durkheim by Talcott Parsons on 5 pages
- Handbook of Political Science: Political Science-Scope and Theory v. 1 by Fred I. Greenstein in Front Matter, page 27, and Back Matter
- The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan on page 259, and Back Matter
- Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance by Frederic M. Scherer on page 4, and Back Matter
- The Social System by Talcott Parsons on page 355, and Back Matter
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- Strong Interaction by Thomas Spence Smith in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Weber (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Stephen Turner in Front Matter
- Rethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis by Mike Reed on page 44
- Information and Organizations (California Series on Social Choice & Political Economy) by Arthur L. Stinchcombe in Back Matter
- Essays in Economic Sociology by Max Weber in Back Matter
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