Studies in Sociology: 9-Volume Set

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This 9-volume collection originally published between 1969 and 1983 contains a selection of subjects viewed through the perspective of sociology; including community; the family; friendship and kinship; leisure; women; and introductory statistics. This set will be a useful resource for those studying sociology as well as of interest for other social science courses. Cover Volume1 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction and Acknowledgments page Note on Footnotes 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents 1: Theory 2: Structure and Stratification 3: Slavery, Ancient and Modern 4: Caste Society 5: Modern Society Index Volume8 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface 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