On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives And The Integration Of Research And
Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and Theory
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One of the world's leading sociologists presents for the first time his comprehensive view of the aims and tools of modern sociology. The book will provoke debate about cogent and controversial theories of the way we understand modern industrial society.
Introduction & Chapter 1
Chapter 2. The Uses of History in Sociology
Chapter 3. Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology
Chapter 4. Socialogical Ethnography Today
Chapter 5. The Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data-Sets and Rational Action Theory
Chapter 6. Rational Action Theory for Sociology
Chapter 7. Causation, Statistics, and Sociology
Chapter 8. Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory
Chapter 9. Explaining Educational Differentials
Chapter 10. Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts
Chapter 11. Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility
Chapter 12. Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930
John H. Goldthorpe , Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy
`On Sociology is a path-breaking book...Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the postwar fuctionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely becuase it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can therefore contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution...It is not, then, altogether implausible that the publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of the discipline.'
David Grusky & Matthew Di Carlo, Cornell University, European Sociological Review |d 8/6/01