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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory |
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Routledge library editions. Social theory.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; part one Preliminaries; 1 The logic of the situation; Introduction to situational logic; Explanation; Human behaviour; Attempting and achieving; Aims: their acquisition and modification; Means: their modifiers and limiters; 2 Understanding and explaining in the social sciences; Introduction; Winch's position in outline; An alternative to Winch; Winch's position developed; Critical discussion of Winch on understanding |
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Sociological problems and the inescapability of mutual and self-appraisalAppendix: discussion of Winch's reply; part two Case studies; 3 Between adult and child: notes on the teenage problem; Introduction; The teenager in adult myth; Criticism of the myths; The stability of social expectations; Teenage as in-between; Comparative observations; What teenagers are trying to do; Conclusion; 4 The idea of social class; The common sense or Castle and Gate theory of class; Defining social class; Models of the structure and recruitment of the class system; Comparison of the models with reality |
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How to look at social classOrigins of our popular theories; The metaphysics of social class; Conclusion; part three Concepts and society; 5 The sociology of knowledge reconsidered; The roots of the sociology of knowledge; The foundations of knowledge in everyday life; Society as objective reality; Society as subjective reality; Commentary; 6 Concepts and society; Society and the third world; Holism and individualism again; Mapping the social world; Objectivity, depth and criticism; Appendix The methodological individualism debate; References; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index |
| Summary |
The main concern of Dr Jarvie's book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of 'the way they see things'. There is the world of physical and social conditioning - where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the world of mind - where action, alternatively, seems to originate; but then there is Karl Popper's 'third world' - where dwell the objects of thought (ideals, theories, beliefs, values) which 'directly affect how people act, and thus affect the way the world is'. Reform, change, improvement, modification |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Social sciences -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317652021 |
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1317652029 |
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