The Social Fabric
Dimensions and Issues
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 1986
Book
Hardback
366 pages
978-0-8039-2788-9 (ISBN)
Description
Composed of papers presented at the 1984 meeting of the American Sociological Association, The Social Fabric addresses the question `how is the social order possible?'. Presenting research and theory regarding the nature of social order and social processes and the contexts in which social life takes place, this volume examines the most fundamental issues of social science. The contributors also put forward bold proposals for improving the nature of social life and apply these new insights to such problems as the nuclear arms issue and world war.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-2788-9 (9780803927889)
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Content
Preface - James F Short Jr
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
The Social Fabric as Metaphor and Reality - James F Short Jr
PART ONE: HOW IS SOCIAL ORDER POSSIBLE?
From Structure to Order - Neil Smelser
Individual Choice and the Social Order - William J Goode
Institutionalized Public Memory - Mary Douglas
A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Norms - Peter H Rossi and Richard A Berk
The Problem of Order - Morris Zelditch Jr
PART TWO: THE ORWELLIAN VISION: SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS
Orwell as Macro-sociologist - Morris Janowitz
War and Peace in Oceania - Kai Erikson
The Iron fist and the Velvet Glove - Gary T Marx
Totalitarian Potentials Within Democratic Structures
PART THREE: SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PROCESSES
To What Degree is a Social System Dependent on its Resource Base? - William R Catton Jr, Gerhard Lenski, and Fred H Buttel
The Limits and Possibilities of Government - Richard D Schwartz
A Perspective from Sociology of Law
Government and the Making of Social Structure - Thomas S Moore and S M Miller
Wheeling and Annealing - Eric M Leifer and Harrison C White
Federal and Multidivisional Control
Citizen Soldier Versus Economic Man - Charles C Moskos
Social History and the Life Course Perspective on the Family - Irving Tallman
A View from the Bridge
Religion and the Social Fabric - Robert Wuthnow
Media Linkages of the Social Fabric - Sandra Ball-Rokeach
PART FOUR: SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC
Sociology and the Nuclear Debate - Theodore Caplow
Uses and Control of Knowledge - Harriet Zuckerman
Implications for the Social Fabric
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
The Social Fabric as Metaphor and Reality - James F Short Jr
PART ONE: HOW IS SOCIAL ORDER POSSIBLE?
From Structure to Order - Neil Smelser
Individual Choice and the Social Order - William J Goode
Institutionalized Public Memory - Mary Douglas
A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Norms - Peter H Rossi and Richard A Berk
The Problem of Order - Morris Zelditch Jr
PART TWO: THE ORWELLIAN VISION: SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS
Orwell as Macro-sociologist - Morris Janowitz
War and Peace in Oceania - Kai Erikson
The Iron fist and the Velvet Glove - Gary T Marx
Totalitarian Potentials Within Democratic Structures
PART THREE: SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PROCESSES
To What Degree is a Social System Dependent on its Resource Base? - William R Catton Jr, Gerhard Lenski, and Fred H Buttel
The Limits and Possibilities of Government - Richard D Schwartz
A Perspective from Sociology of Law
Government and the Making of Social Structure - Thomas S Moore and S M Miller
Wheeling and Annealing - Eric M Leifer and Harrison C White
Federal and Multidivisional Control
Citizen Soldier Versus Economic Man - Charles C Moskos
Social History and the Life Course Perspective on the Family - Irving Tallman
A View from the Bridge
Religion and the Social Fabric - Robert Wuthnow
Media Linkages of the Social Fabric - Sandra Ball-Rokeach
PART FOUR: SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC
Sociology and the Nuclear Debate - Theodore Caplow
Uses and Control of Knowledge - Harriet Zuckerman
Implications for the Social Fabric