Theoretical Sociology

  • Theoretical Sociology: A Concise Introduction to Twelve Sociological Theories
    By Jonathan H. Turner

    Jeffrey Alexander and his colleagues at Yale and other key centers of cultural theorizing have been part of the movement pushing for a strong program. Even though not all cultural sociologists go this far, most cultural sociologists ...

  • Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present
    By Jonathan H. Turner

    Morris Rosenberg on Reflexivity and Dramatic Presentations Morris Rosenberg's basic argument is that reflexivity, or thinking about the effects of one's actions, changes the physiological nature of human emotions.90 Through the ...

  • Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present
    By Jonathan H. Turner

    2Gerhard Lenski, Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966; repr., Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984). 3Gerhard Lenski, Patrick Nolan, and Jean Lenski, Human Societies: ...

  • Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present
    By Jonathan H. Turner

    Nonetheless, Miller's approach represents an excellent illustration of both the problems and the prospects of ... The most ambitious general systems approach since Spencer's is that developed by James Grier Miller some decades ago.

  • Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation
    By Kevin McCaffree, Seth Abrutyn

    And the just reward is formed in a large variety of ways—each one affecting the justice evaluation in distinctive ways and concomitantly each distribution of just rewards affecting the JED in distinctive ways.

  • Theoretical Sociology
    By Randall Collins

    This is an excellent overview of theoretical sociology. Theoretical means that the book tries to understand society in a general sense. The book has a historical perspective but it also...

  • Theoretical Sociology
    By Collins Randall

    Theoretical Sociology

  • Theoretical Sociology
    By Jonathan H. TurnerACOSX

    Theoretical Sociology

  • Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present
    By Jonathan H. Turner

    The text is dived into three key parts: Part 1 provides detailed analyses of the theories of the classical tradition, including the works of August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, and George ...