Studies in Sociology: 9-Volume Set

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Volume1
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Table of Contents
Preface
1: Introduction
Patterns of Sociability in Occupational and Community Studies
Friendship and Kinship
Outline of the Book
2: Ways of Seeing
Sociological Perspectives of Sociable Relationships
Rules of Relevance
3: The Selden Hey Study
The Research Setting
Selection of the Sample
Star construction
The Interviews
4: The Nature of Friendship and Kinship
Aspects of Kinship in Western Culture
Friend Relationships
Aspects of Friendship in Western Culture
5: Middle-Class Sociability
Social Skills
The Development of Middle-Class Friendships
Variations in Friendship
The Breaking of Friendship
‘Real’ and ‘True’ Friends
6: Working-Class Sociability
Previous Studies
The Selden Hey Material
Discussion
7: Sociability with Kin
Kin Relationships
Parent-Adult-Child Sociability
Relationships with Siblings
Variations in Sibling Relationships
Secondary Kin
8: The Structure of Sociability
External Aspects of Sociability Networks
Social Class
Family-and Life-Cycle Position
Geographical Mobility
Gender Differences
Internal Aspects of Sociability Networks
Network Analysis
Elizabeth Bott
9: Conclusion
The ‘General Thesis’
Other Considerations
Appendix: Social Class and Patterns of Sociability
Bibliography
Index
Volume2
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Preface
1: Introduction
2: Theories of Community
3: Community Study as a Method of Empirical Investigation
4: The American Community Studies
Middletown
The Chicago School
Yankee City
Communities in the Deep South
Small Town in Mass Society
North American Suburban Communities
5: The European Studies
Community in Southern Ireland
Life in the Welsh Countryside
The Sociology of an English Village
Village in the Vaucluse
The Deeply Rooted
The Southern Italian Studies
Ashworthy and Westrigg
Coal is our Life
The People of the Sierra
Glossop and Banbury
6: Local Social Stratification
7: Community Studies, Community Power and Community Conflict
8: Conclusions
Further Reading
Index
Volume3
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1: Introduction
2: The Sociology of Sex and Gender
Part One: Childhood and Adolescence
3: Childhood - The Years from Birth to 11
4: Adolescence
5: Young Adults
Part Two: Adulthood
Introduction
6: Work, Deviance and Leisure
7: Community and Class
8: Power, Politics, Leisure and Religion
9: The Mother, Grandmother and Widow: Parenthood and Old Age
10: Conclusions
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Volume4
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Preliminaries
Part I
1: Kinship
2: Marriage
3: The Family
Part II: The Family and Society
4: The Family and Industrial Society
5: Family, Mobility, Community
Part III: Family Process and Family Structure
6: The Nuclear Family
7: Adult Relationships in the Elementary Family
8: Conclusion
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Volume5
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Introduction
Part One: Introductory
Section I: Basics
1: Kinship
2: Marriage
3: Family
Section II: The Family and Industrial Society - The Functionalist Approach
4: The 'Fit' Between Family and Society
5: The Family and Individual Mobility
Part Two: Exploratory
Section I: Historical Understandings
6: The English Family Before Industrialisation
7: Family and Industrialisation
8: The Character of English Family Life Before Industrialisation
9: Distinguishing Family Types in Capitalist-Industrial Society
Section II: Marxist Perspectives
10: The Household and Family under Capitalism
Section III: The Family in Contemporary Britain
11: Official Statistics and the Decline of the Family
12: The Sociology of the Elementary Family
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Volume6
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1: Physical Science
Laws of Nature
The Problem of Induction
Falsifiability
Statistical Laws
Explanation
Commonsense and Scientific Explanation
Theoretical Terms
Reduction
2: Minds and Social Science
Sociological Empiricism
Human Action
Social Action
Language
Social Institutions
Unobservables and Explanation
3: Regularities in Social Science
Social Laws and Laws of Historical Succession
Cross-cultural Generalization
Social Generalizations and their Shortcomings
Ideal Types
Economic Theory
Social Science Theory in General
Practical Difficulties in Testing Social Science Laws
Correlation
Sampling and Significance
4: Explanation in Social Science
The Individual and the Social
Social Groups and Law
Social Rules
Characteristics of Social Wholes
Individualism and Explanation
The Explanation of Action
Explanation-sketches
Individualistic Laws
Explanation by Motive
Decision-schemes
Intentions
The Justification of Action-Explanations
Action, Psychology, and Physical Science
Explanation and Laws in Social Science
Causal Adequacy and Adequacy on the level of Meaning
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Sociological Explanation and Historical Explanation
Psychologism
5: Functionalism and Explanation in Social Science
Functionalism in Biology
Functionalism in Social Science
Societal Survival Functionalism and Institutional Relation Functionalism
A conceptual connection between the Two Functionalisms
Functional Explanation
Natural Selection
Essential Functions
Institutional Relation Functionalism and Explanation
Teleological Explanation
6: Value-judgements and Social Science
The Nature of Moral Judgements
Moral Objections to Value-free Social Science
Physical science, Value-judgements, and Objectivity
Scientific Concepts and Value-relevance
Operationalization and Indices
The morality of social science
Value-relevance and Value-freedom
Ideology and Social Science
Political Economy
From Ideology to the Relativity of truth
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Volume7
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1: Theory
2: Structure and Stratification
3: Slavery, Ancient and Modern
4: Caste Society
5: Modern Society
Index
Volume8
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Introduction
Dimensions and Relationships
Data and Research
Inter-Disciplinary Emphasis
The Structure of the Book
Part One: The Cultural Context of Leisure
1: A Historical and Comparative View
Definitions and Concepts
Simpler Societies
Greece and the Leisure Ideal
The History of Leisure in Britain
2: Leisure in Industrial Society
Leisure as a Social Institution
Leisure and Social Stratification in Britain
The Leisure Industries
The 'Time Famine'
Variations Among Industrial Societies
3: Variety of Leisure Experience
Classification of Types of Leisure
The Decline of Work Values?
Elite and Mass Culture
The Search for Identity
'Square' and 'Deviant' Leisure
4: Leisure in the Life-Cycle
Children, Play and Leisure
Adolescents and Leisure
Leisure in Adult Life
Leisure and the Elderly
A Framework for Analysis of Change
Part Two: Leisure and Other Spheres of Life
5: Leisure and Work
Leisure and Work in Other Societies
Leisure and Work Today
The Influence of Work on Leisure
The Influence of Leisure on Work
Types of Work-Leisure Relationship
The 'Leisure Solution' to Work
6: Leisure and the Family
The History of Family Recreation
The Family as a Source of Leisure Attitudes
Family Leisure Activities
Class Differences in Family Leisure
Leisure Activities of the Sexes
7: Leisure and Education
The Influence of Education on Leisure Behaviour
The Wider Aims of Education
Education for Leisure
Education as Leisure
Life-Long Education
8: Leisure and Religion
Holy Days, Holidays and Celebrations
The Affinity of Leisure and Religion
Religious Prescriptions for Leisure
Religion and Organised Leisure
Religion as Leisure Activity
Part Three: Leisure Planning and Policies
9: Consumers and Demand
The Economics of Leisure
Time Available for Leisure
Factors Affecting Demand
Demands on Space
Sport
The Arts
Holidays
The Role of the Mass Media
10: Providers and Provision
The Aims of Planning
Public Enterprise
Private Enterprise
Spatial Imbalances
Resource Scarcity and Conservation
The Hierarchy of Supply
The Demand-Supply Relationship
11: Conclusion Leisure and Tomorrow
A Society of Leisure?
Continuing Trends
The All-Important Question of Values
Index
Volume9
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1: Statistics and the Social Sciences
2: Frequency Distributions, Graphic Representation and Measures of Central Tendency
3: Measures of Variation and the Standard Normal Distribution
4: Probability
5: Sampling and Estimation
6: Hypothesis Testing with Single Samples
7: Statistical Inference with Two Samples
8: An Introduction to Analysis of Variance
9: The Chi-Square Test and Contingency Problems with Nominal Scales
10: Regression and Correlation
11: Sources of Statistics
References
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Answers to Exercises
Index