Stratification and Organization
Selected Papers
Part of Studies in Rationality and Social Change
- Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
- Date Published: April 2011
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The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or suitable to explain individual and collective action in institutional contexts? Professor Stinchcombe was one of the first sociologists to write on this question; and this collection includes a new essay which takes account of recent work done in the tradition Stinchcombe did much to institute. The first group of essays - on class, stratification and mobility - addresses core problems of the discipline and offers imaginative conceptualizations with interesting empirical consequences. The second section - essays on the sociology of organizations - displays, like the first, Stinchcombe's wide knowledge of sociological traditions from structuralism to Marxism. The final section, 'comments on the discipline', deepens the readers understanding of sociological theorizing by presenting different modes of analysis of universities and research institutions and providing challenging, and often funny, insights into the subject.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511890208
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Rationality and social structure: an introduction
Part I. Stratification:
2. Agricultural enterprise and rural class relations
3. Some empirical consequences of the Davis–Moore theory of stratification
4. Interdependence and inequality: a specification of the Davis–Moore theory
5. Marxist theories of power and empirical research
6. Social mobility in industrial labor markets
7. The sociology of ethnic loyalties
8. The deep structure of moral categories, eighteenth-century French stratification and the Revolution
Part II. Organizations:
9. Bureaucratic and craft administration of production: a comparative study
10. Social structure and the founding of organizations
11. On social factors in administrative organization
12. Norms of exchange
Part III. Sociology as a Profession:
13. On getting 'hung up' and other assorted illnesses
14. Review of Max Weber's Economy and Society
15. Merton's theory of social structure
16. A structural analysis of sociology
17. The mathematical biology of survey research centres
18. On journal editing as a probabilistic process
19. Should sociologists forget their mothers and fathers?
Bibliography
Name and place-name index
Subject index.
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