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Author : W. G. Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521369835
Third and concluding volume on social theory, applying distinctive methodology to case of twentieth-century England.
Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521272513
Third and concluding volume on social theory, applying distinctive methodology to case of twentieth-century England.
Author : Walter Garrison Grunciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874731990
Author : W. G. Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521249066
In this first volume of a projected trilogy, the author argues that a methodology adequate to solve the long-standing debate over the status of the social as against the natural sciences can be constructed in terms of a fourhold distinction between the reportage, explanation, description and evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction rests on an analysis of the scope and nature of social theory which is not only original in conception but far-reaching in its implications for the assessment of the results of sociological, anthropological and historical research. In this volume, there are set out the separate and distinctive criteria by which the reports, explanations, descriptions and evaluations put forward by social scientists of rival theoretical schools require to be tested. These criteria will then be applied in Volume II to a substantive theory of social relations, social structure and social evolution, and in Volume III to a detailed analysis of the society of twentieth-century England. Each of the three volumes can be read independently of the others. Thus the trilogy will, when completed, be seen to form a coherent and unified whole.
Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521588014
In this concluding volume of his trilogy on social theory, W. G. Runciman applies to the case of twentieth-century English society the methodology (distinguishing reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation) and theory of the preceding two volumes. Volume III shows how England's capitalist mode of production, liberal mode of persuasion, and democratic mode of coercion evolved in the aftermath of the First World War from what they had been since the 1880s, but then did not, in turn, evolve significantly following the Second World War. The explanation rests on an analysis of the selective pressures favouring some economic, ideological, and political practices over others in an increasingly complex environment, neither predictable nor controllable by policy-makers. This is supported by a graphic account of the changes themselves and how they were experienced by different segments of English society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:47942538
Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521249600
The concluding volume of W.G. Runciman's trilogy on social theory applies his theory and methodology to the case of twentieth-century English society. He shows how England's capitalist mode of production, liberal mode of persuasion, and democratic mode of coercion evolved in the aftermath of World War I from what they had been since the 1880s, yet did not evolve significantly following World War II. His explanation demonstrates that some economic, ideological and political practices were favored over others in an increasingly complex environment, neither predictable nor controllable by policymakers.
Author : Walter Garrison Grunciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:895467765
Author : Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781453215463
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : OCLC:797855607
Author : William H. Sewell Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226749198
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
Author : Harold Garfinkel,Anne Rawls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250258
In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual whose success depends on completeness of both reason and information. In real life these conditions are not possible and these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote this treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today.
Author : Earle Edward Eubank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258260611
Author : John Milbank
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470693315
This is a revised edition of John Milbank’s masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was “a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation and brilliance”. Featured in The Church Times “100 Best Christian Books" Brings this classic work up-to-date by reviewing the development of modern social thought. Features a substantial new introduction by Milbank, clarifying the theoretical basis for his work. Challenges the notion that sociological critiques of theology are ‘scientific’. Outlines a specifically theological social theory, and in doing so, engages with a wide range of thinkers from Plato to Deleuze. Written by one of the world’s most influential contemporary theologians and the author of numerous books.
Author : J. W. Burrow
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052104393X
An investigation of the reasons why Victorian pioneers of social science were habitually approaching the study of other societies with largely positivistic and evolutionary methodologies.