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This Book Presents A Comprehensive, Extended, And Systematic Analysis Of Social Theory As It Developed Between The Two World Wars, A Period During Which Major Transformation Occurred. Centering On The Continuities, On The One Hand, And Discontinuities On The Other, In Substantive Theory, It Deals With The Major Ideas Of Cooley, Ellwood, Park, Thomas, Ogburn, Bernard, Chapin, Mead, Faris, Hankins, Maciver, Reuter, Lundberg, H.p. Becker, Parsons, Znaniecki, Sorokin, And Blumer. Finally, The Problematic Relevancy Of The Past For The Present Is Directly Confronted. The Author Examines How Basic Assumptions Of Theory In Particular Periods Have Used Relatively Unique Schema And Generated Considerable Controversy. 1. Confronting Problems In The Study Of Theory In American Sociology (1915/18-1945/50) -- 2. Three Epistemological-methodological Stances -- 3. Social Evolutionism, Social Origins, And Social Structure -- 4. Critique Of Earlier Social Evolutionism And Its Legacy In The Second Period -- 5. Fragmentation And Demise Of Social Evolutionary Change Theories -- 6. Discontinuities Arising Within American Sociology -- 7. Theory, Anthropology, And History -- 8. Theory, Psychiatry, And Psy

Author

Roscoe C. Hinkle

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791419328

Subjects

Sociology, History, Philosophy