| Description |
xvi, 398 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"All the contributions ... were originally written for presentation at the 1975 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association at San Francisco, although some of them have been extensively rewritten since." |
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"A publication of the American Sociological Association." |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 343-386. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Some questions about discontinuities in American society / David Riesman -- Conventional wisdom, common sense, and empirical knowledge : the case of stratification research and views of American society / Peter H. Rossi -- Conflict within the working class : the skilled as a special-interest group / William H. Form -- Politics, conflict, and young blue-collarites : old dissensus and new consciousness / Arthur B. Shostak -- Old issues and new directions for research / Richard F. Hamilton -- Understanding and misunderstanding individual modernity / Alex Inkeles -- Modernization : requiescat in pace / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Introduction to a formal theory of political conflict / Ted Robert Gurr & Raymond D. Duvall -- Explaining revolutions : in quest of a social-structural approach / Theda Skocpol -- The power basis of ethnic conflict in American society / James E. Blackwell -- Ethnicity in complex societies : structural, cultural, and characterological factors / J. Milton Yinger -- Deviant behavior, social intervention, and labeling theory / Walter R. Grove -- A reassessment of labeling theory : a constructive response to criticism / Patrick W. Conover --Response to critics : feedback and choice / Edwin M. Lemert -- The emergence of sociology as a policy science / James S. Coleman -- Competent authority : reality and legitimating model / Dennis H. Wrong -- Law and the distribution of power / Laura Nader & David Serber -- Local control of community services / Albert K. Cohen -- Marxist theories of power and empirical research / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Hermeneutics, ethnomethodology, and problems of interpretative analysis -- Two methods in seach of a substance / Lewis A. Coser. |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Congresses.
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Sociology -- Congresses. |
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Coser, Lewis A., 1913-2003.
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Coser, Lewis A., 1913-2003. |
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Larsen, Otto N.
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Larsen, Otto N. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Coser, Lewis A., 1913-2003.
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Larsen, Otto N.
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American Sociological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Uses of controversy in sociology. New York : Free Press, c1976 (OCoLC)652263997 |
| ISBN |
0029068304 : $14.95 |
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9780029068304 |
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