The classical tradition in sociology: the American tradition/
edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui.
- London: SAGE, 1997.
- 4 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
v. 1. The emergence of American sociology : from the enlightenment to the founding fathers. The emergence of American sociology : the classical tradition -- v. 2. American sociology in the twentieth century : from pragmatism to functionalism and quantitative sociology -- v. 3. American sociology in the twentieth century : from pragmatism to functionalism and quantitative sociology (continued). American sociology in the twentieth century : recent trends in sociological theory -- v. 4. American sociology in the twentieth century : recent trends in sociological theory (continued).
VOLUME I: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: I - FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE FOUNDING FATHERS (1750-1900) I: THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT On the Fronteirs of Sociology and History - L Schneider Observations on Evolutionary Development and Unanticipated Consequences The American Enlightenment - Peter Gay The Founders and the Classics - C J Richard Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment II: DE TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICAN DISTINCTIVENESS TRANSCENDENTALISTS God, Woman, and Morality - W Mathie The Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville - R J Boesche Pauperism and Democracy - H Brogan Alexis de Tocqueville and Nassau Senior III: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY Introduction, from /f003The Philadelphia Negro - W E B DuBois W E B DuBois as a Social Investigator - M Bulmer /f003The Philadelphia Negro 1899 Social Self-Control - A Giddings The Causes of Race Superiority - Ross Sociology - B Lecuyer and A R Oberschall The Early History of Social Research Fifty Years of Sociology in the United States - 1865 - 1915 - Albion Small The Statistical Turn in American Social Science - C Camic and Y Xie Columbia University, 1890 to 1915 American Sociology at the Turn of the Century - Robert E Faris American Sociology - H Odum
VOLUME II: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: II - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (1900-1940) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL AND PRAGMATISM The Work of George Mead - G Dewey The Chicago School of Sociology - M Bulmer What Made It a `School'? George Herbert Mead and the Chicago Tradition of Sociology - B M Fisher and A L Strauss Parts I and II Sociology and Public Affairs - J Carey The Chicago School The Chicago Tradition - B M Fisher and A L Strauss Thomas, Park and their Successors Pragmatism and Social Interactionisms - Dmitri Shalin The Self as Social Structure - G H Mead The Self as Sentiment and Relection - C H Cooley The Looking Glass Self - C H Cooley On Thomas and Znaniecki's `The Polish Peasant' - M Bulmer Urbanism as a Way of Life - Louise Wirth The Ghetto - Louise Wirth The Development of Field Research Methods - M Bulmer II: OTHER AMERICAS: SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE CHICAGO Sociology as a Religious Movement - R R Dynes William Graham Sumner - D W Rossides Lester F Ward - D W Rossides A Scientific Revolution - H Kuklick Sociological Theory in the United States, 1930 - 1945 Origins of American Sociology - L L Bernard and J Bernard The Social Science Movement in the United States The Social Construction of Style - G A Fine Thorstein Veblen's /f003The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested Text Scientism, from /f003A History of Sociological Research Methods in America/f001 - Jennifer Platt
VOLUME III: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: I - FROM PRAGMATISM TO FUNCTIONALISM AND QUANTITATIVE SOCIOLOGY (1930 - 1960) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: FROM MEAD TO BLUMER The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism - H Blumer Elaboration, Revision, Polemic and Progress in the Second Chicago School - Paul Colomy and J David Brown The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interaction - Gary Alan Fine Herbert Blumer's Contribution to Twentieth Century Sociology - Shibutani The Classic American Pragmatists as Forerunners to Symbolic Interactionism - J D Lewis Everett Hughes - Anselm Strauss Sociology's Mission Everett Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - J M Chaupolie Social Problems as Collective Behavior - H Blumer Accounts - Scott and Lyman II: TALCOTT PARSONS: SOCIAL ACTION; FUNCTIONALISM; SYSTEMS THEORY Parsons's /f003Structure - Jeffrey C Alexander Structure after 50 years - C Camic The Anatomy of a Charter Out of Utopia - R Dahrendorf III: LAZARSFELD AND MERTON: THEORIES OF THE MIDDLE RANGE Merton as a Discipline Builder - Charles Crothers Out of Utopia - Jennifer Platt IV: OTHER MICRO-APPROACHES Small Group Theory and Research - Robert F Bales Bringing Men Back In - G Homans The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology - D Wrong Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmact in World War II - E Shils and M Janowitz Deviant Behaviour and Social Structure - R Dubin The Curious Importance of Small Groups in American Sociology - A Silver Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior - Merton and Kitt V ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy - Alvin Gouldner
VOLUME IV: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: II (1960 - ) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: MAJOR MACRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES MODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION: FROM PARSONS TO SMELSER AND NEO-FUNCTIONALSIM Social Differentiation and Organic Solidarity - H P Muller The Division of Labor Revisited, Sociological Forum Economy and Society: A Reminder Stressing the Importance of the Contribution by T Parsons and N Smelser - M A Basle Social Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s - D Sciulli and D Gerstein Against Nostalgia - B Turner and R Holton ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND NEO-INSTITUTIONALISM Bell and Post-Industrial Theory - M Waters On the Use and Abuse of Thorstein Veblen in Modern American Sociology II - R Tilman and J L Simich Daniel Bell and the `Utopianizing' of Veblen's Contribution and its Integration by Robert Merton and C W Mills Institutionalization Organizations - Meyer and Rowan Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony FROM CRITICAL THEORY TO COMMUNATARIANISM Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory - D Kellner HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY: FROM MOORE TO SKOCPOL Vision and Method in Historical Sociology - T Skocpol II: MAJOR MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES Treating Method and Form as Phenomena - L Langsdorf An Appreciation of Garfinkel's Phenomenology of Social Action Drama as Life - P Manning The Significance of Goffman's Changing Use of the Theatrical Metaphor Rational Choice Theory in Sociology - R J Holton III: NEW TRENDS Feminism, Essentialism, and Historical Context - R Champagne I Can't Even Think Straight - A Stein and K Plummer Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology Social Postmodernism - L J Nicholson and S Seidman Beyond Identity Politics The Promise of a Cultural Sociology - J C Alexander Technological Discourse and the Sacred and Profane Information Machine