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Reflecting the growing interest in economic sociology, this new edition has been comprehensively updated to include important developments in this fie...
Collection of essays on sociology, causation, and pragmatic considerations by one of the leading social scientists of the past half-century. Now repub...
Even after teaching generations of social scientists, Neil Smelser's classic book remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for a...
The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995
These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of ...
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Quality ebook reprint of a classic work in the social sciences, by one of the leading scholars on the intersection of two important disciplines: econo...
A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory
Annotation. Originally published in 1956....
How to Read, Criticize and Do Theory
A pithy and clear guide to the process of creating and evaluating theory in the social sciences. Using a simple model of theory creation and assessmen...
Social and Psychological Dimensions
Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the gene...
In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"โand on this basis...
For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for h...
An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry
First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an an...
Committees. Seemingly endless, boring discussions going nowhere. No university survives without them, and no faculty member can avoid them. Why are th...
From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University
These invaluable essays offer an insiderโs perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. S...
General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study
THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the mid-1970s, to fill seve...
"Usable Social Science represents a remarkable collaboration between Neil J. Smelser, one of Americaโs most distinguished sociologists, and John Ree...
The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically inter...
A National Resource, Part I
Behavioral and Social Science Research: A National Resource specifies appropriate criteria for assessing the value, significance, and social utility o...
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century
Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how...
50 Years of Discovery
In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences
The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, profoundly changed the course of history of the nation. They also brought the phenomenon known as terr...
An Application of Theory to the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1770-1840
Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishin...
In recent years economics has been the subject of increasingly severe criticism. It has failed both to predict and to counteract the economic crisis n...
Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Volume I
The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part, we have thrown out the antiquated notions of the 18...
Some Implications of 9/11
This report addresses the question of what terrorists hold in value. This question is posed in order to assess some means and strategies for deterring...
A National Resource
Areas of behavioral and social science research that have achieved significant breakthroughs in knowledge or application or that show future promise o...
Racial Trends and Their Consequences : Volume II
Racial Trends and Their Consequences
A Report
Fifty Years of Discovery : in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the "Ogburn Report," Recent Social Trends in the United States
Proceedings of a symposium held Nov. 29-30, 1983, which spotlighted a number of important changes within behavioral and social science research....