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Self, social structure, and beliefs : explorations in sociology / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine L. Williams.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520937857
  • 0520937856
  • 1597348929
  • 9781597348928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Self, social structure, and beliefs.DDC classification:
  • 301 22
LOC classification:
  • HM706 .S445 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Mastering ambivalence : Neil Smelser as a sociologist of synthesis / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, Christine L. Williams -- Introduction / Christine L. Williams -- The sociological eye and the psychoanalytic ear / Nancy J. Chodorow -- The commodity frontier / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The glass cage : flexible work, fragmented consumption, fragile selves / Yiannis Gabriel -- Rational choice and sociology / Alberto Martinelli -- Enlisting Smelser's theory of ambivalence to maintain progress in sociology of religion's new paradigm / R. Stephen Warner -- Circuits of commerce / Viviana A. Zelizer -- Trust as an aspect of social structure / Robert Wuthnow -- The organizational foundations of university capability : differentiation and competition in the academic sector of society / Burton R. Clark -- Introduction / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Primordial beliefs and immigration policy : the case of Britain's patrials / Christian Joppke -- Causal reasoning, historical logic, and sociological explanation / Lyn Spillman -- Intellectual cycles of social movement research : from psychoanalysis to culture? / James M. Jasper -- Shaping sociological imagination: the importance of theory / Piotr Sztompka.
Summary: Neil Smelser is an iconic figure in sociology. This volume reveals the range & depth of his influence, & his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behaviour, higher education, the economy, & psychoanalysis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mastering ambivalence : Neil Smelser as a sociologist of synthesis / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, Christine L. Williams -- Introduction / Christine L. Williams -- The sociological eye and the psychoanalytic ear / Nancy J. Chodorow -- The commodity frontier / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The glass cage : flexible work, fragmented consumption, fragile selves / Yiannis Gabriel -- Rational choice and sociology / Alberto Martinelli -- Enlisting Smelser's theory of ambivalence to maintain progress in sociology of religion's new paradigm / R. Stephen Warner -- Circuits of commerce / Viviana A. Zelizer -- Trust as an aspect of social structure / Robert Wuthnow -- The organizational foundations of university capability : differentiation and competition in the academic sector of society / Burton R. Clark -- Introduction / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Primordial beliefs and immigration policy : the case of Britain's patrials / Christian Joppke -- Causal reasoning, historical logic, and sociological explanation / Lyn Spillman -- Intellectual cycles of social movement research : from psychoanalysis to culture? / James M. Jasper -- Shaping sociological imagination: the importance of theory / Piotr Sztompka.

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Neil Smelser is an iconic figure in sociology. This volume reveals the range & depth of his influence, & his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behaviour, higher education, the economy, & psychoanalysis.

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