Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2: Microdynamics

ISBN-13: 9781441962249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 348 str.

Jonathan Turner

Opis

By developing a set of explanatory, testable, repeatable principles, the author creates a general empirical framework for sociological research. In this work, Turner specifically focuses on macro-level dynamics and their impact on social interaction.

Spis treści

The Micro-level Realm of Social Reality.- The Embedding of Encounters.- Ecological and Demographic Dynamics in Encounters.- Status Dynamics in Encounters.- Role Dynamics in Encounters.- Cultural Dynamics in Encounters.- Motivational Dynamics in Encounters.- Emotional Dynamics in Encounters.- The Micro Basis of the Meso and Macro Social Realms.- Principles of Microdynamics.

O autorze

Jonathan H.Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, and since the 1969-1970 academic year,he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more subtantive specialities,including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institututions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.

Blurb

Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems. In this Handbook, the author explores the effect of microdynamics on these larger social systems.