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The sociology of economic life
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ISBN: 0138215790 0138215618 Year: 1976 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

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Problematics of sociology : the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995
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ISBN: 0520206754 9780520206755 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley: University of California press,

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"Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered at Humboldt University in the spring of 1995, Problematics of Sociology is a distillation of Neil Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology." "Each chapter considers a different level of analysis: micro, meso, macro, and global. Within this framework, the themes considered range over a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and nonrational in social action and in social science theory; social institutions as imagined entities; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity."--Jacket.

The faces of terrorism : social and psychological dimensions
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ISBN: 9780691133089 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,


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Sociology : an introduction
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ISBN: 0471799211 9780471799214 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Wiley,

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Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0520075293 0520075307 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley (CA) University of California Press

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Neil Smelser's 'Social Paralysis and Social Change' is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain--often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict--struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed history of educational development and a theoretical study of social change, at once a case study of Britain and a comparative study of variations within Britain. Smelser simultaneously meets the scholarly standards of historians and critically addresses accepted theories of educational change--"progress," conflict, and functional theories. He also sheds new light on the process of secularization, the relations between industrialization and education, structural differentiation, and the role of the state in social change. This work marks a return for the author to the same historical arena--Victorian Britain--that inspired his classic work 'Social Change in the Industrial Revolution' thirty-five years ago. Smelser's research has again been exhaustive. He has achieved a remarkable synthesis of the huge body of available materials, both primary and secondary. Smelser's latest book will be most controversial in its treatment of class as a primordial social grouping, beyond its economic significance. Indeed, his demonstration that class, ethnic, and religious groupings were decisive in determining the course of British working-class education has broad-ranging implications. These groupings remain at the heart of educational conflict, debate, and change in most societies--including our own--and prompt us to pose again and again the chronic question: who controls the educational terrain?


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Theory of collective behavior
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ISBN: 0710034318 9780710034311 Year: 1970 Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,

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Social Paralysis and Social Change : British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9786612356667 1282356666 0520911547 0585079293 9780520911543 0520075293 9780520075290 0520075307 9780520075306 9781282356665 9780585079295 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain-often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict-struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed history of educational development and a theoretical study of social change, at once a case study of Britain and a comparative study of variations within Britain. Smelser simultaneously meets the scholarly standards of historians and critically addresses accepted theories of educational change-"progress," conflict, and functional theories. He also sheds new light on the process of secularization, the relations between industrialization and education, structural differentiation, and the role of the state in social change. This work marks a return for the author to the same historical arena-Victorian Britain-that inspired his classic work Social Change in the Industrial Revolution thirty-five years ago. Smelser's research has again been exhaustive. He has achieved a remarkable synthesis of the huge body of available materials, both primary and secondary. Smelser's latest book will be most controversial in its treatment of class as a primordial social grouping, beyond its economic significance. Indeed, his demonstration that class, ethnic, and religious groupings were decisive in determining the course of British working-class education has broad-ranging implications. These groupings remain at the heart of educational conflict, debate, and change in most societies-including our own-and prompt us to pose again and again the chronic question: who controls the educational terrain?

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