Power, Trust, and Meaning - Essays in Sociological Theory and Analysis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Social Structure, Culture, Agency, and Change1: The Place of Elites and Primary Groups in the Absorption of New Immigrants in Israel2: Reference Group Behavior and Social Integration: An Explorative Study3: Archetypal Patterns of Youth4: Institutionalization and Change5: Social Change, Differentiation, and Evolution6: Societal Goals, Systemic Needs, Social Interaction, and IndividualBehavior: Some Tentative Explorations7: Symbolic Structures and Social Dynamics with Special Reference toStudies of Modernization8: Charisma and Institution Building: Max Weber and Modern Sociology9: Patron-Client Relations as a Model of Structuring Social ExchangeSchmuel Eisenstadt, Luis Roniger.10: Prestige, Participation, and Strata Formation11: Culture and Social Structure Revisited12: The Order-maintaining and Order-transforming Dimensions of Culture13: Action, Resources, Structure, and MeaningIndex

Summary

This collection of 12 theoretical essays spans more than 40 years of research in order to explore the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis.

Product details

• Authors: S. N. Eisenstadt, S. N. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Eisenstadt, Samuel N. Eisenstadt
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1995
• EAN: 9780226195568
• ISBN: 978-0-226-19556-8
• No. of pages: 414
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Heritage of Sociology S; Heritage of Sociology Series; Heritage of Sociology Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries