On Sociology Second Edition Volume One – Critique and Program Goldthorpe

On Sociology Second Edition Volume OneCritique and Program\nAuthor(s): John H. Goldthorpe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804749985, 978-0804749985\nSynopsis\nOn Sociologyextensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this second editionaddresses the current state of the discipline. Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology, combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an essential book for any sociologist.\n\n The collection of closely.