Don Martindale

The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Notions are widespread that sociological theory is either an industrious activity on the drawing boards of the architects of fantasy or a branch of esoterics operating in a shadowy realm of semi-darkness. The present study holds neither of these conceptions of sociological. The present study's function is to illuminate the difference between one theory and another. The power and reliability of a theory are not always evident all at once. A theory may have a power to explain what was not originally anticipated; it may also disclose the existence of problems it cannot explain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 572
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136225802
• Artikelnr.: 39998384

Autorenporträt

Don Martindale

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Sociology and the Sciences
Chapter 1 The Road to Sociology
Chapter 2 The Birth of the Social Sciences
Part 2 Positivistic Organicism
Chapter 3 The Social and Philosophical Origins of Positivistic Organicism
Chapter 4 The Classical Period of Positivistic Organicism
Chapter 5 The Transformation and Eventual Disintegration of Positivistic Organicism
Part 3 Conflict Theory: The Paradox of Maturity
Chapter 6 The Foundations of Conflict Theory
Chapter 7 Major Conflict Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 Sociological Conflict Theories
Part 4 The Formal School of Sociological Theory
Chapter 9 The Philosophical Foundations of Sociological Formalism
Chapter 10 The Neo-Kantian Branch of Sociological Formalism
Chapter 11 The Phenomenological Branch of Sociological Formalism
Part 5 Social Behaviorism
Chapter 12 The Conceptual Foundations of Social Behaviorism
Chapter 13 The Pluralistic Behavioral Branch of Social Behaviorism
Chapter 14 Symbolic Interactionism
Chapter 15 The Social-Action Branch of Social Behaviorism
Chapter 16 Further Developments in Social-Action Theory
Part 6 Sociological Functional
Chapter 17 The Nature and Origins of Sociological Functionalism
Chapter 18 Macro-Functionalism in Contemporary Sociology
Chapter 19 Micro-Functionalism: Group Dynamics
Part 7 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Toward Theoretical Integration