AuthorFararo, Thomas J. author
TitleGenerating Images of Stratification [electronic resource] : A Formal Theory / by Thomas J. Fararo, Kenji Kosaka
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0123-5
Descript VII, 204 p. 24 illus. online resource

SUMMARY

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


CONTENT

1. The Methodology of Formal Theorizing -- 2. Stratification and Consciousness -- 3. The Panoply of Structural Images -- 4. Self-Location in a Stratified System -- 5. Images of the Shape of a Stratified System -- 6. Theoretical Elaborations -- 7. Proliferation: New Directions of Research -- References


SUBJECT

  1. Social sciences
  2. Operations research
  3. Decision making
  4. Philosophy and social sciences
  5. Anthropology
  6. Sociology
  7. Social Sciences
  8. Sociology
  9. general
  10. Methodology of the Social Sciences
  11. Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  12. Operation Research/Decision Theory
  13. Anthropology