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  • The Sociology of Economic Life

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Neil J. Smelser's The Sociology of Economic Life is a foundational text that bridges the disciplines of sociology and economics, offering a comprehensive analysis of how social structures, cultural norms, and human behavior shape economic systems. Written with clarity and depth, this seminal work provides an essential framework for understanding the dynamic interplay between society and economic ... Read more

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  • Sociological Theory – A Contemporary View: How to Read, Criticize and Do Theory

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    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 assessment--and applying it in depth to foundational and still-relevant social and economic theorists such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons--Neil Smelser shows the way to a better understanding of what social theory is supposed to accomplish and how it can be ... Read more

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  • Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Even after teaching generations of social scientists, this classic book by Berkeley's Neil J. Smelser remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all comparative scholars and in political science, anthropology, sociology, economics and psychology. Such issues are timeless and therefore Smelser's lucid analysis remains timely and relevant.Smelser posits a methodological ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Economic Life

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Quality ebook reprint of a classic work in the social sciences, written by one of the leading scholars on the intersection of two important disciplines: economics and sociology. This is an unabridged republication of the Second Edition of this much-cited study. Presented with care, the ebook edition features such proper digital formatting as: active TOC, linked endnotes, fully-linked subject and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections on the University of California

    From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Robin Content and Neil Smelser's inside story and scholarly analysis of a major sociology department's search, during the mid-70s, to fill faculty jobs--in the midst of radical changes to the college market that began in the 1960s. That sea change is exposed with candid self-awareness and examined in its effects: treatment of candidates, affirmative action, shrinking markets, and recommendations ... Read more

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  • Social Change in the Industrial Revolution

    An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has selected a model of social change from a developing general theory of action; for the second, the British ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Essays in Sociological Explanation

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Smelser's much-referenced collection of writings on issues of sociological theory and practice--by one of the world's leading social scientists of the past half-century. This informative book is now republished in the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books. Quality ebook formatting includes active TOC, linked chapter endnotes, and legible graphs and images from the original. ... Read more

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  • Theory of Collective Behavior

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    The golden anniversary edition of THEORY OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR from Quid Pro Books is a modern republication of a sociological and social psychology classic. Adding a reflective new Preface by the author and an extensive, analytical Foreword by MIT's Gary Marx, it is an authorized and painstaking edition—not just scanned and forgotten like most such reprints today. It features quality formatting ... Read more

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  • Getting Sociology Right

    A Half-Century of Reflections

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, Smelser discusses his views on the discipline of sociology and shows how his perspective of the field ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Usable Social Science

    by Neil J. Smelser, John S. Reed ...
    This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Dynamics of the Contemporary University

    Growth, Accretion, and Conflict

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Series Book 3 - The Clark Kerr Lectures On the Role of Higher Education in Society
    This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change—labeled structural accretion—that has characterized the history of American higher education, mainly (but not exclusively) of universities. The essence of the theory is that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD