{"product_id":"on-sociology-second-edition-volume-two-9780804750004","title":"On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Goldthorpe, one of Great Britain's most eminent sociologists, finds sociology in a troubling state of disarray. Research and theory proceed in ignorance of each other, and the mantra of \"pluralism\" undermines the prospect of consensus on the discipline's fundamental purpose and approach. In this expanded, two-volume edition of his manifesto, he proposes a solution to this lamentable state of affairs: make a particular style of research the chief paradigm... The book is useful, erudite, and occasionally provocative.\" -- \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eOn Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e will come to be seen as a turning-point in the history of the discipline.\" -- \u003ci\u003eEuropean Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John Goldthorpe has given us a fine book. . . . I cannot think of a better introduction for any aspiring sociologist to the delicate art of synthesizing theory and empirics. . . . Each of Goldthorpe's chapters hammers home the virtues of finding an intellectual rapprochement between statistical modelling, based on large data-sets, structures of social action and interaction, and theory.\" -- \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents @toc4:Preface\txxx @toc2:chapter one\tIntroduction\t1 @toc1:PART ONE @toc2:chapter two\tThe Uses of History in Sociology: Reflections  on Some Recent Tendencies\t000 chapter three\t Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology 000 chapter four\tSociological Ethnography Today: Problems and  Prospects\t000 chapter five\tGlobalisation and Social Class\t000 @toc1:PART TWO @toc2:chapter six\tThe Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data  Sets and Rational Action Theory: For a Sociological Alliance\t000 chapter seven\tRational Action Theory for Sociology\t000 chapter eight\tRational Action Theory in Sociology: Misconceptions  and Real Problems\t000 chapter nine\tCausation, Statistics and Sociology\t000 @toc4:Notes\t000 Bibliography\t000 Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405558980951,"sku":"9780804750004","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804750004.jpg?v=1730492830","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-sociology-second-edition-volume-two-9780804750004","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}