On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two Illustration and Retrospect

Name: On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two Illustration and Retrospect
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ISBN: 9780804750004

ISBN-10: 0804750009

ISBN-13: 9780804750004

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: John H. Goldthorpe

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On Sociology--extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this second edition--addresses the current state of the discipline. Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology, combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an essential…

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List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction to Volume II






Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory: The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment



Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory (with Richard Breen)



The Theory Evaluated: Commentaries and Research



Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts



Class Analysis: New Versions and Their Problems



Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility






Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930: Explaining an Absent Synthesis



Statistics and the Theory of Social Action: Failures in the Integration of American Sociology, 1900-1960


Notes


Bibliography


Index