Neil Fligstein (Class of 1939 Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor, Doug McAdam (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Stanfo

Theory of Fields

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement thoery, organizational theory, economic, and political sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780190241452
• ISBN-10: 0190241454
• Artikelnr.: 47863402

Autorenporträt

Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. A renowned scholar of economic sociology, organizations, and political sociology, he is the author or coauthor of six books, including The Architecture of Markets and Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books in the area of political sociology, with an emphasis on social movements and revolutions. Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Freedom Summer, and (with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: The Gist of It
* Introduction - The Central Elements of the Theory -
* Other Perspectives - Conclusion
* Chapter 2: Micro-Foundations
* Introduction - Meaning and Membership - The Collective as Existential
Refuge -
* Social Skill - Social Skill in Action - The Scope of the Theory -
* Institutional Politics - Social movements - Markets and the Economy -
* The Nonprofit Sector - Conclusion
* Chapter 3: Macro Implications
* Introduction - The "Embeddedness " of Strategic Action Fields -
* An Excursus on Formal Organization and Bureaucracy - The State
* as a system of strategic action fields - The Impact of State Fields
on
* Non-state strategic action fields - The Dependence of States and
State
* Fields on Non-state strategic action fields - Internal Governance
Units -
* Higher Education and the Professions - Conclusion
* Chapter 4: Change and Stability in Strategic Action Fields
* Introduction - Current Debates - The Emergence of Strategic Action
Fields
* - Sustaining a Settlement - Settlements and Ruptures - Reestablishing
-
* Field Stability - The Relationship between Social Skill and the State
of
* the Strategic Action Field - Social Skill and the Emergence of Fields
- Social
* Skill and the Reproduction of Fields - Social Skill and the
Transformation of
* Fields - Conclusion
* Chapter 5: Illustrating the Perspective
* Introduction - The Civil Rights Struggle, 1932-1980 - Setting the
Stage -
* The Field of Racial Politics - Destabilizing Changes - The Episode of
Contention
* and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement - A New Settlement - The
Declining
* Salience of the Cold War Dynamic - The Revenge of the Dixiecrats and
the End
* of the New Deal Electoral Regime - The Rise of Black Power and the
Rupture in
* the Movement strategic action fields - The Institutionalization of
the Civil Rights
* Movement and Its Impact on Other Strategic Action Fields - Summing up
- The
* Transformation of the U.S. Mortgage Market, 1969-2010 - The Dominant
Strategic
* Action Fields of the Mortgage Market, 1934-1987 - Changes that
Destabilized the
* Mortgage Market, 1969-1987 - Settlement and the new Strategic Action
Field - The
* Rise of the Industrial model of the MBS market, 1993-2007 - The
Causes of the
* Crisis - The Impact of the Strategic Action Field based on the
Industrial model on
* other strategic action fields - Conclusion
* Chapter 6 Methods
* Introduction
* The Roadmap
* How to Tell if a Strategic Action Field Exists
* Emergence, Stability, and Crisis, Part 1
* The Problem of the State in Relation to Strategic Action Fields
* Emergence, Stability, and Crisis, Part 2
* Social Skill, Strategic Action, and the Question of Entrepreneurship
* Considering Different Philosophies of Science and Methodological
Strategies
* A Positivist Approach to Strategic Action Fields
* Realist Approaches to Strategic Action Fields
* The Problem of Empiricism
* Conclusion
* Chapter 7 A Theory of Strategic Action Fields
* So what is new here?
* The Problem of the Accumulation of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
* The Surprising Discovery of Fields
* Toward a Collaborative Program of Theory and Research on Fields
* Bibliography