Generating Images of Stratification: A Formal Theory: 35 (Theory and Decision Library A:, 35) - Hardcover

Fararo, Thomas J.; Kosaka, Kenji

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402015003 ISBN 13: 9781402015007

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail:

-Self-contained presentation - In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods the book provides clear and simple accounts accompanied by examples.
- A theoretical research program - The emphasis is on theory development, involving a series of theoretical models constructed within a core framework of principles and methods.
- Deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality - We know from research that how people perceive the stratification system of a society depends upon their position in that system. So the problem is: What process generates this regularity and thereby explains empirical generalizations about the social structuration of images?
- Constructs generative theoretical models - The book is an extended presentation of "generative theory" in sociology, a formal method of producing effective theoretical explanations.

Generating Images of Stratification is of interest to mathematical sociologists and formal theorists in sociology; sociologists interested in social stratification; methodologists, both in sociology and in other fields; philosophers of social science; and theoretical scientists and mathematicians who are interested in applying their analytical tools to social science topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402015003
• ISBN 13: 9781402015007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211