| On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two: Illustration and Retrospect Contributor(s): Goldthorpe, John H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080474999X ISBN-13: 9780804749992 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: " When the most distinguished empirical social researcher in Britain takes on the problem of the relation between theory and research, places the issues in their larger historical setting (based on wide and accurate reading in the historical literature), and also states the issue in current technical terms, and does so with both panache and bite, we get a book that is well worth reading." -- American Journal of Sociology " Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the post-war functionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely because it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution. . . . The publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning-point in the history of the discipline." -- European Sociological Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 2006020316 |
| Series: Studies in Social Inequality (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.42" W x 9.28" (1.37 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream, combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative research and the explanatory power of social action theory. |