Roscoe C. Hinkle

Founding Theory of American Sociology, 1881-1915 (RLE Social Theory)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on a comparative study of the theories of such sociologists as Ward, Sumner, Keller, Giddings, Ross, Small and Cooley, this is a systematic and rigorous analysis of the main features of earlier sociological theory in the USA. The author identifies and characterizes the basic assumptions of early American sociological thought in terms of an abstract analytical scheme. He shows that early theory focused on social ontological interests, the pervasive ontological stance being evolutionary naturalism, within which the problems of social origins and social change tended to be paramount. He also points out that some sociologists preferred a social process theory. In his final chapter the author suggests the degree of similarity and dissimilarity, of continuity and discontinuity, between earlier and later theory in American sociology, and provides a basis for explaining and interpreting the character of the prevalent assumptions of one period in American theory in relation to other periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9781138974586
• ISBN-10: 1138974587
• Artikelnr.: 44148813

Autorenporträt

Roscoe C. Hinkle

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a Sociology of the History of Sociological Theory 2. Contexts of
Early Sociological Theory 3. An Overview of the Major Characteristics of
Early Theory in Terms of an Analytic Scheme 4. Social
Epistemological-Methodological Theories 5. Theories of Social Origins 6.
The Theory and Characteristics of Primordial Social Structure 7. Toward
Theories of Social and Societal Structures 8. An Overview of Theories of
Social Change and Social Evolution 9. Anti-Social Evolutionism and the
Social Process Theory of Social Change 10. Social Evolution, Social
Process, and Social Progress in Social Change: Summary 11. A Basic Synoptic
Characterization of Founding Theory 12. Toward Discontinuity and Continuity
in the History of American Sociological Theory