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Title: Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman, Deepak Lal ISBN: 0-674-31226-0 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A gargantuan synthetic effort
Comment: Coleman's book is one of the most ambitious sustained attempts to theorize the social world from a single perspective -- and one which, unlike systems theories (e.g., Parsons, Luhmann) has clear predictive consequences. Of course, the book is just as interesting for where rational choice theory breaks down (e.g., with regard to obligations to family and extreme religious groups, and when it comes to preference formation) as for where it obviously applies (e.g. to corporate law). Even if you're a rational choice skeptic, there's plenty of value by way of concepts (e.g., disjoint vs. conjoint authority), though at almost 1,000 pages, this is by no means a quick read -- best surveyed under the guidance of someone who knows where the interesting bits are. (If I may, chs. 1-5.)
Rating: 4
Summary: Challenging
Comment: It was not easy to read through this. But, for those who wanna try something other than usual in sociology, I think this book will do. Don't you think the truth about our society is still out there? We have come here and it's too far away from the truth. ..and I think sociology is left land which will be fertile in some centuries. I think this book started first for searching another method to the gold, truth. Not just because it introduced mathematical view in sociology ,but because it showed us a new way of proceeding.
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Title: Social Capital: Theory and Research (Sociology and Economics (Paper)) by Nan Lin, Karen S. Cook, Ronald S. Burt ISBN: 0202306445 Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Social Capital: Critical Perspectives by Stephen Baron, John Field, Tom Schuller ISBN: 0199243670 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications by Eric Lesser ISBN: 0750672226 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 26 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Social Capital : A Theory of Social Structure and Action by Nan Lin, Mark Granovetter ISBN: 052152167X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Social Network Analysis : Methods and Applications by Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust, Dawn Iacobucci, Mark Granovetter ISBN: 0521387078 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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