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Alvin Gouldner
Alvin Ward Gouldner (July 29, 1920 – December 15, 1980) taught sociology at Antioch College (1952–1954) and was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis (1957–1967), at the University at Buffalo (1947-1952), president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1962), professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam (1972–1976) and Max Weber Professor of Sociology at Washington University (from 1967). He was born in New York City. His early works such as ''Patterns in Industrial Bureaucracy'' can be seen as important as they worked within the existing fields of sociology but adopted the principles of a critical intellectual. This can be seen more clearly in his 1964 work ''Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of Value Free Sociology'', where he claimed that sociology could not be objective and that Max Weber had never intended to make such a claim. He is probably most remembered in the academy for his 1970 work ''The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 In Sociology
{, class="infobox" , - style="background:#f3f3f3;" , style="text-align:center;", 1940s . 1950s in sociology . 1960s , - , style="text-align:center;", Other topics: Anthropology . Comics . music The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1950s. 1950 *Theodor Adorno's ''The Authoritarian Personality'' is published. *George Homans's '' The Human Group'' is published. * Thomas Humphrey Marshall's '' Citizenship and Social Class''. * Richard Titmuss' '' The Problems of Social Policy'' is published. *''British Journal of Sociology'' launched. *Sociology viewed as a Social Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomas is initiated by Fr. Valentin Marin with Criminology, followed by A.W. Salt and Murray Bartlett at University of the Philippines and by Clyde Helfin at Siliman University. 1951 *Theodor Adorno's ''Minima Moralia'' is published. *Maurice Duverger's ''Political Parties'' is published. *Theodor Geiger's '' Social Mobility within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sociologists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lemert
Charles Lemert (born 1937) is an American born social theorist and sociologist. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization and culture. He has contributed to many key debates in social thought, authoring dozens of books including his best-selling text ''Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life'', 5th edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), which the historian Howard Zinn, the author of '' A People's History of the United States'', has called "one of those rare ruminations on the human condition that makes you want to return to it after your first reading to ponder its ideas." From 1982 to 2010, he taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his family. Lemert is distinguished as a theorist in the US, most notably for introducing French theory to American sociology. His first book ''Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory'' (Southern Illinois Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureaucratization
The term bureaucracy () refers to a body of non-elected governing officials as well as to an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution, whether publicly owned or privately owned. The public administration in many jurisdictions and sub-jurisdictions exemplifies bureaucracy, but so does any centralized hierarchical structure of an institution, e.g. hospitals, academic entities, business firms, professional societies, social clubs, etc. There are two key dilemmas in bureaucracy. The first dilemma revolves around whether bureaucrats should be autonomous or directly accountable to their political masters. The second dilemma revolves around bureaucrats' behavior strictly following the law or whether they have leeway to determine appropriate solutions for varied circumstances. Various comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
