On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and TheoryOn Sociology brings together a collection of essays all written in the last ten years by one of the best-known and influential British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moves on to essays that outline a programme for a new sociological mainstream. This would combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action, especially rational action theory. Essays illustrative of this style of sociology then follow dealing with substantive topics in the field of social stratification. The final essay takes up some of the relevant issues in the history of sociology. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Reflections on Some Recent Tendencies | 28 |
3 Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology | 45 |
Problems and Possibilities | 65 |
For a Sociological Alliance | 94 |
6 Rational Action Theory for Sociology | 115 |
7 Causation Statistics and Sociology | 137 |
The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment | 161 |
Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory with Richard Breen | 182 |
10 Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts | 206 |
11 Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility | 230 |
Explaining an Absent Synthesis | 259 |
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