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Making Sense of Social Theory
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781442201200
Umbreit-Nr.: 2119602
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 294 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.12.2009
Auflage: 2/2009
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Making Sense of Social Theory opens by carefully exploring what it means to follow the scientific method in a field like sociology. The book goes on to analyze sociology as a genuine science with a body of explanatory insights. Sociological theory is applied in ways that make its relevance and power apparent so that theory no longer stands divorced from real world research or practice. Making Sense of Social Theory clearly establishes the pertinence of sociology's great theoretical insights for all social science researchers and practitioners.
- Kurztext
- Making Sense of Social Theory is unusual in treating sociology as a real science with a body of understandable, robust, and powerful theoretical insights. These theoretical insights are formalized in twelve simple axioms and twenty-three more detailed principles readers can use to predict (1) differences among people in how they think, feel, and respond, (b) changes in the structure, culture, and effectiveness of organizations, and (c) trends in societal values, conflict, and priorities.
- Autorenportrait
- Charles H. Powers is a professor of sociology at Santa Clara University.