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Sociological Theory and Sociological Practice
Acta Sociologica, 2007This article is concerned with the question of the relevance of the results of sociological research external to the discipline — or, in other words, with the form of dealing with sociological knowledge in the environment of the scientific system. When it comes to application, compared to other disciplines sociology has an unusual problem: Unlike ...
Thomas Kurtz
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This textbook analyses the work of classical and contemporary sociological theorists. The first part is dedicated to Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Pareto, and Simmel. The second part covers the major contemporary sociological perspectives: Functionalism, Marxism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenological Sociology, and ...
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A Sociological Theory of Psychopathy
American Journal of Sociology, 1948The concept of psychopathy has had a long development in psychopathology. Earliest usage centered around such terms as "moral imbecility"; more recently, the designation "psychopathic personality" has been favored. There has been much argument about the validity of the concept "psychopathy" but relative agreement about the behavior which it specifies ...
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Sociological Theory and Industrial Sociology
Social Forces, 1955R EGARDING social theory and its application to the study of the attitudes of soldiers, Stouffer states: "The truth is that, except for providing broad and none too explicit ways of looking at problems, most of the theories of social psychology and sociology were not in very good shape for practical application."' Similar statements, but couched in ...
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Contemporary Sociological Theory.
Contemporary Sociology, 1981Ian Varcoe, Ruth A. Wallace, Alison Wolf
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2018
Throughout the history of sociology, three types of theorizing have co-existed, sometimes uneasily. ‘Theories of’ provide abstract models of empirical processes; they function both as guides for sociological research and as sources for covering laws whose falsification or validation is intended to provide the basis for a cumulative science ...
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Throughout the history of sociology, three types of theorizing have co-existed, sometimes uneasily. ‘Theories of’ provide abstract models of empirical processes; they function both as guides for sociological research and as sources for covering laws whose falsification or validation is intended to provide the basis for a cumulative science ...
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1966
As sociological thinking appears in the form of general thinking about society as well as in the form of more specific theories, it is within these two categories that we must look for approaches to the problems of world society.
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As sociological thinking appears in the form of general thinking about society as well as in the form of more specific theories, it is within these two categories that we must look for approaches to the problems of world society.
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