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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext On Sociology brings together a collection of essays from the last ten years by one of the best-known and influential British sociologist! John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moves on to propose a new direction for the sociological mainstream. The essays combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action! especially rational action theory. The book then turns to specific examples of this style of sociology! particularly in the field of social stratification. The final essay takes up related issues in the history of sociology. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and Chapter 1 Chapter 2. The Uses of History in Sociology Chapter 3. Current Issues in Contemporary Macrosociology Chapter 4. Social Ethnography Chapter 5. Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Date-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 Differentials of Employment Contracts Chapter 11. Outline of a Theory for Sociology Chapter 12. Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930. ...
