On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory - Hardcover

Goldthorpe, John H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198295715 ISBN 13: 9780198295716

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

"On Sociology" brings together a collection of essays by the British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moved on to essays that outline a programme for a new sociological mainstream. The essays combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action, especially rational action theory. It then turns to essays illustrative of this style of sociology. The book deals with substantive topics in the field of social stratification. The final essay takes up some of the relevant issues in the history of sociology. This book is intended for scholars and students of sociology, social science methodology, business, economics, and social researchers.

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Review

On Sociology is a path-breaking book...Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the postwar fuctionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely becuase it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can therefore contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution...It is not, then, altogether implausible that the publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of the discipline. (David Grusky & Matthew Di Carlo, Cornell University, European Sociological Review)

About the Author

John H. Goldthorpe is at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198295715
• ISBN 13: 9780198295716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 346