Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Page : 2998 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Patents
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Author :
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Page : 2998 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Patents
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Author : Coser, Lewis A.
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
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ISBN : 141284696X
Author : Siegfried Frederick Nadel
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Sociology
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Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author : John Levi Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400830532
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form structures. He looks at a range of social structures, from smaller ones like families and street gangs to larger ones such as communes and, ultimately, nation-states. He finds that the relationships best suited to forming larger structures are those that thrive in conditions of inequality; that are incomplete and as sparse as possible, and thereby avoid the problem of completion in which interacting members are required to establish too many relationships; and that abhor transitivity rather than assuming it. Social Structures argues that these "patronage" relationships, which often serve as means of loose coordination in the absence of strong states, are nevertheless the scaffolding of the social structures most distinctive to the modern state, namely the command army and the political party.
Author : H. Peyton Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691214255
Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment, are sometimes short-sighted, and occasionally act in perverse ways. He shows how the cumulative experiences of many such individuals coalesce over time into customs, norms, and institutions that govern economic and social life. He develops a theory that predicts how such institutions evolve and characterizes their welfare properties. The ideas are illustrated through a variety of examples, including patterns of residential segregation, rules of the road, claims on property, forms of economic contracts, and norms of equity. The book relies on new results in evolutionary game theory and stochastic dynamical systems theory, many of them originated by the author. It can serve as an introductory text, or be read on its own as a contribution to the study of economic and social institutions.
Author : Robert King Merton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Social classes
ISBN : 0029211301
This new printing is not a newly revised edition, only an enlarged one. The revised edition of 1957 remains intact except that its short introduction has been greatly expanded to appear here as Chapters I and II. The only other changes are technical and minor ones: the correction of typographical errors and amended indexes of subjects and names.
Author : Karl Kautsky
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Capital
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Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439138303
A Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different relationships merit distinct treatment for particular purposes. Parsons concludes that in the larger picture, their interdependencies are so intimate that bringing them together in an interpretive synthesis is imperative if a balanced understanding of the complex as a whole is to be attained.
Author : Charles Crothers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136185119
Crothers's book provides a thorough introduction to the idea of social structure. He examines the meanings of the term, the history of its usage within sociology and looks at the more recent developments in thinking on social structure.