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Written by award-winning scholar, Jonathan Turner, Contemporary Sociological Theory covers the range of diversity of theory in nine theoretical tradit...
Analyzing in detail the development of sociological theory from 1830 to 1930, this text covers the most important theorists of that period-Comte, Spen...
1830 to the Present
Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan Turner, Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present covers new and emerging aspects of sociological theory an...
A Sociological Theory
This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginni...
This text covers new and emerging aspects of sociological theory and examines the significant contributions of both modern and founding theorists. Sev...
The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human
In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine hu...
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A Renewed Appreciation
This first volume in the new series Masters of Social Theory examines the work of Herbert Spencer. Jonathan Turner says of Spencer 'There are so many ...
A Theory of Societal Evolution
In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institut...
All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter through the mobilization of social movements to the commitm...
A Concise Introduction to Twelve Sociological Theories
What can sociological theory tell us about the basic forces that shape our world? With clarity and authority, leading theorist Jonathan H. Turner seek...
Macrodynamics
In a general study of Sociological Theory, social processes are usually broken down into three tiers: macrodynamics (societies and large-scale institu...
Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very ...
An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology
A radical revision of the conventional history of American sociology, this book rejects both "triumphalism" and the "successful institutionalization" ...
Mesodynamics
The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micr...
Emotional Stratification and Change in Post-Industrial Societies
Those who address conflict resulting from differing socio-economic groups (stratification systems) focus on the arousal of negative emotions. Less fre...
Toward an Evolutionary Social Science
"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary ...
Microdynamics
Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with ...
Economy, Kinship, Religion, Polity, Law, and Education in Evolutionary and Comparative Perspective
Groundbreaking and all-encompassing, The Institutional Order studies institutions from their inception and then compares one to another. Explaining th...
In developing the most comprehensive theory of social interaction among humans to date, the author has also constructed a general theory of micro dyna...
Assessing Theoretical Cumulation
This volume, stemming from the annual meeting of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, addresses theoretical cumulation in two ...
Toward a General Theory
This book by Jonathan Turner and Anthony Roberts proposes a new theoretical approach for explaining the dynamics of inter-societal systems. The author...
Human Nature and the Evolution of Society
The authors assert that traditional sociological theories of human nature and society do not pay sufficient attention to the evolution of "big-brained...
Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior
Updating classic sociological theory and utilizing the results of recent research in evolutionary and neurphysiological theory, this ambitious work ai...
Toward a Theory on the Organization of Human Populations
Toward a Theory on the Organization of Human Populations...
By Means of Natural Selection
Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and ...
A Positivist's Perspective
The theme of this collection of articles by Jonathan Turner is that sociology can be a true science, and it can develop abstract laws explaining the o...
A Survey of Social Institutions
Reconciling Biology, Psychology and Sociology
This authoritative book proposes a methodological and theoretical strategy for developing sociological explanations of the socio-cultural universe. Jo...
A Theoretical Analysis
Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity
Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined. This book expa...
Origins of the Taboo
Rich and multi-dimensional study of long-standing taboo....
The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination
Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or ...
American Ethnicity is a brief text that provides an accessible introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. Key concepts and theories ...
Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
A brief history of evolutionary analysis in sociology -- The continuing sociological tradition -- Can functionalism be saved? : toward a more viable f...
A Socio-history of Black-White Relations in America