The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138983799 ISBN 13: 9781138983793

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage.
In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is produced and reproduced, how it is related to social processes, and how such processes can be formalized and create conditions for productively studying their properties. Mathematical models and representations are presented by the authors as a coherent set of tools for understanding many social phenomena.

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Review:

"Provocative....How the book as a whole addresses the topic of solidarity is also a success....The Problem of Solidarity may be best viewed as the initiation of debate on the development of formal solidarity....This achievement is remarkable....The books sets an example of how to make attempts to understand solidarity fruitful."-Theory and Epistemology

About the Author:

Patrick Doreian is a Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh and is chair of the Department of Sociology. He has edited the Journal of Mathematical Sociology since 1982 and has been a member of the editorial board for Social Networks since 2003. He was a Centennial Professor at The London School of Economics during 2002. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California-Irvine and the University of Ljubljana. His interests include social networks, mathematical sociology, interorganizational networks, environmental sociology and social movements.

THOMAS J. FARARO is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at The University of Pittsburgh, where he has been since 1967. His most recent books include The Meaning of General Theoretical Sociology, Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique (co-editor), and The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models (co-editor).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138983799
• ISBN 13: 9781138983793
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 434
• Editor: Doreian Patrick