Key Ideas in Sociology
Published on 14. June 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-333-47298-9 (ISBN)
Description
An outline of key ideas and theories in sociology by the author of "The ABC of Sociology" (1985).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
50ill.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-47298-9 (9780333472989)
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Content
Structural Marxism, Louis Althusser; labelling theory, Howard Becker; post-industrial society, Daniel Bell; linguistic codes, Basil Bernstein; deskilling, Harry Braverman; collective consumption, Manuel Castells; positivism, Auguste Comte; conflict theory, Ralf Dahrendorf; anomie social solidarity, Emile Durkheim; historical materialism, Friedrich Engels; gender patriarchy; feminism; dependency theory, Frank Andre Gunder ; critical theory, Frankfurt school; ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel; stigma, Erving Goffman; embourgeoisement, John Goldthorpe ; hegemony, Antonio Gramsci; legitimation crisis, Jurgen Habermas; phenomenology, Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schtuz; deschooling, Ivan Illich; convergence thesis, Clark Kerr; paradigms, Thomas S.Kuhn; culture of poverty, Oscar Lewis; ideology, Karl Mannheim; alienation, Karl Marx; human relations, Elton Mayo; symbolic interactionism, Herbert George Mead; sociology of science, Robert K.Merton; iron law of oligarchy, Robert Michels; power elite, Mills C.Wright; urban managerialism corporatism, Raymond E.Pahl and Jack Winkler; elite theory, Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca; human ecology, Robert Ezra Park; structural functionalism, Talcott Parsons; falsification, Karl Popper; relative autonomy, Nicos Poulantzas; housing classes, John Rex and Robert Moore; self-fulfilling prophecy, Robert Rosenthal and Leone Jacobson; modernisation theory, Walt Whitman Rostow; formal sociology, Georg Simmel; social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer; scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor; gemeinschaft-gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies; bureaucracy Protestant ethic, Max Weber; urbanism, Louis Wirth; secularisation, Bryan Wilson.