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Author Zetterberg, Hans Lennart, 1927-

Title Social Theory and Social Practice
Published Somerset : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (95 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; Social Theory and Social Practice; 1 The Problem; 2 The Knowledge of Social Practitioners; Professional Creeds; Case Studies; Rules of Thumb; Descriptive Orientation; Application of Scientific Laws; Three Fallacies in Current Literature for Practitioners; A Random List of Books and Articles Suggested as Helpful by Practitioners; 3 The Knowledge of Social Theorists; Sociological Terms; Types of Actions; Positions; Social Relations; Organizations and Markets; Themes
Institutional Realms and Their StratificationBy Way of Summary; Sociological Laws; On the Limits of Action; On Mobilization; On the Convergence of Ideas; A Central Assumption about Motivation; On Achievement Motivation; On Compliance with and Deviance from Prescriptions; On the Emergence of Ideas; Some Laws about Markets; On Evaluative Equalization; On Familiarity in Social Relations; On Institutional Reward Patterns; On Differentiation of Positions and Communications between Ranks; On Vested Interests and on Class Conflicts; On Humanitarianism; On Oscillation of Dominant Motivational Types
On Growth of an Institutional ValueBy Way of Conclusion; 4 The Practical Use of Social Theory Through Scholarly Consultations; Samples from a Consultation; Making an Exploratory Inquiry; Achieving a Scholarly Understanding; The Response of the Public; The Museum in the Artistic Reward System; Art and the Integration of the Elite; Art and the Circulation of Economic and Political Elites; Confronting the Client with a Scholarly Understanding of His Situation; Calculation of Solutions; Presenting Practical Advice; Complications; 5 On the Uses of Consultations; Abuses of Applied Science
Notes Some Prerequisites for Successful Use of Applied ScienceApplied Research vs. Applied Theory
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Subject Social service.
Sociology.
sociology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Social service
Sociology
Form Electronic book
Author Zetterberg, Hans
Zetterberg, Hans L
ISBN 9781351306188
1351306189