Joseph Bensman
Biographic Data
| ID | 79800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Bensman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Bensman |
| SIGNATURE | BENSMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Cultural Contradictions of Daniel Bell
White Collar Crime
The crisis of confidence in modern politics
The aesthetics and politics of footnoting
Mediterranean and total Bureaucracies
Commentary on Guy Oakes's paper on ?Max Weber and the South German neo-Kantians
Intellectuals in 1984
Politics, Character, and Culture
Between Public and Private
On Matters Left Unfinished by Weber
The Sociology of Community
Craft and Consciousness
The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism and the failure of Nerve
Recent developments in American society
A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of social science is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. Runciman argues that Weber's analysis breaks down at three decisive points: the difference between theoretical pre-suppositions and implicit value-judgements; the manner in which 'idiographic' explanations are to be subsumed under causal laws; and the relation of explanation to des…
The New American Society
The New American Society
Small Town and the Nation
The Concept of Negative Consensus
Small Town in Mass Society
Phenomenology of Journalism
In a previous essay, the authors attempted to define, in phenomenological terms, the artistic and critical attitudes.The artistic attitude was seen as the attempt to create the image of a total world, which could be enjoyed or viewed in terms of an attitude of everyday life; that is to say, that the created image was so all-encompassing, so total, and so complete, of a concreteness and vividness, such that the viewer could suspend perceptions of …
A Phenomenological Model of the Artistic and Critical Attitudes
Sexual Patterns in Three Ethnic Subcultures of an American Underclass
Three American ethnic subcultures, all consisting of transmigrated groups living in poverty, were studied and the sexual patterns of the youth described. The groups con sisted of white Appalachians living in Chicago, Negroes in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Ricans in New York. Sharply differentiated patterns of sexual behavior, involving conquest, sex education, sex misinformation, attitudes toward females, responsibility, and affect were discover…
Classical music and the status game
Small town in mass society
First published in 1958, Small Town in Mass Society set community studies on a new course by placing the small town within the framework of large-scale, bureaucratic mass society. Drawing attention to the dynamics of class and ethnicity in relation to economics and politics, this landmark work was among the first to document the consequences of centralized administration on life in American communities. Through a close study of Springdale, New Yo…
Crime and Punishment in the Factory
The functional view of deviancy, which emphasizes rejection of the norms of a social system and the conflict between means and ends, is brought under question because it imputes to a system. An alternative perspective is presented, advancing the conception that norms are rules that express the nature of social transactions in an organization and are established under a historically specific systems of authority. Under this conception, actions do …
Small Town in Mass Society
A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of social science is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. Runciman argues that Weber's analysis breaks down at three decisive points: the difference between theoretical pre-suppositions and implicit value-judgements; the manner in which 'idiographic' explanations are to be subsumed under causal laws; and the relation of explanation to des…
Small Town in Mass Society
Small Town in Mass Society
Art and the Mass Society
Journal Article Art and the Mass Society Get access Joseph Bensman, Joseph Bensman William Esty and Co. and Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Israel Gerver Israel Gerver William Esty and Co. and Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 19…
The aesthetics and politics of footnoting
Freedom and Responsibility in Research” Comments
We are pleased to be invited to join in the discussion of the issues which the Editor opened up in the editorial in Human Organization, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 1-2
The crisis of confidence in modern politics
Commentary on Guy Oakes's paper on ?Max Weber and the South German neo-Kantians
The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism and the failure of Nerve
Sexual Patterns in Three Ethnic Subcultures of an American Underclass
Three American ethnic subcultures, all consisting of transmigrated groups living in poverty, were studied and the sexual patterns of the youth described. The groups con sisted of white Appalachians living in Chicago, Negroes in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Ricans in New York. Sharply differentiated patterns of sexual behavior, involving conquest, sex education, sex misinformation, attitudes toward females, responsibility, and affect were discover…
Mass, Class, and Bureaucracy
Social Theory in Field Research
Sociologists tend to imbue theory with a value of its own as if, a priori, it could provide models for solving specific problems of research. But social theory provides sets of alternative perspectives on data relevant to a given problem. When theory is used heuristically, it leads to its own "destruction" and to the formulation of substitute perspectives more closely related to the relities involved
The Validity of Field Data
Scattered through the professional journals in fields commonly included in the social sciences—sociology, anthropology, social psychology, personality, public opinion—there is found an increasing concern with the reliability and validity of information secured for social science analysis. Much of this interest stems from or was stimulated by the now classical Social Science Research Council Bulletins on the use of personal documents, or by work b…
Towards a Sociology of Expertness
Journal Article Towards a Sociology of Expertness Get access Israel Gerver, Israel Gerver Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph Bensman Joseph Bensman Republic Aviation Corporation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 32, Issue 3, March 1954, Pages 226–235, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573239 Published: 01 March 1954
The Validity of Field Data
Scattered through the professional journals in fields commonly included in the social sciences—sociology, anthropology, social psychology, personality, public opinion—there is found an increasing concern with the reliability and validity of information secured for social science analysis. Much of this interest stems from or was stimulated by the now classical Social Science Research Council Bulletins on the use of personal documents, or by work b…
Freedom and Responsibility in Research” Comments
We are pleased to be invited to join in the discussion of the issues which the Editor opened up in the editorial in Human Organization, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 1-2
Small Town in Mass Society
Art and the Mass Society
Journal Article Art and the Mass Society Get access Joseph Bensman, Joseph Bensman William Esty and Co. and Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Israel Gerver Israel Gerver William Esty and Co. and Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 19…
Small Town in Mass Society
Social Theory in Field Research
Sociologists tend to imbue theory with a value of its own as if, a priori, it could provide models for solving specific problems of research. But social theory provides sets of alternative perspectives on data relevant to a given problem. When theory is used heuristically, it leads to its own "destruction" and to the formulation of substitute perspectives more closely related to the relities involved
Small Town in Mass Society
Crime and Punishment in the Factory
The functional view of deviancy, which emphasizes rejection of the norms of a social system and the conflict between means and ends, is brought under question because it imputes to a system. An alternative perspective is presented, advancing the conception that norms are rules that express the nature of social transactions in an organization and are established under a historically specific systems of authority. Under this conception, actions do …
Mass, Class, and Bureaucracy
Anti-Poverty Programming
Reflections on Community Studies
Leadership in a Small Town.Aaron Wildavsky
Classical music and the status game
Dollars and Sense
A Phenomenological Model of the Artistic and Critical Attitudes
Sexual Patterns in Three Ethnic Subcultures of an American Underclass
Three American ethnic subcultures, all consisting of transmigrated groups living in poverty, were studied and the sexual patterns of the youth described. The groups con sisted of white Appalachians living in Chicago, Negroes in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Ricans in New York. Sharply differentiated patterns of sexual behavior, involving conquest, sex education, sex misinformation, attitudes toward females, responsibility, and affect were discover…
Phenomenology of Journalism
In a previous essay, the authors attempted to define, in phenomenological terms, the artistic and critical attitudes.The artistic attitude was seen as the attempt to create the image of a total world, which could be enjoyed or viewed in terms of an attitude of everyday life; that is to say, that the created image was so all-encompassing, so total, and so complete, of a concreteness and vividness, such that the viewer could suspend perceptions of …
The Concept of Negative Consensus
Small Town in Mass Society
Small Town and the Nation
The New American Society
The New American Society
A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of social science is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. Runciman argues that Weber's analysis breaks down at three decisive points: the difference between theoretical pre-suppositions and implicit value-judgements; the manner in which 'idiographic' explanations are to be subsumed under causal laws; and the relation of explanation to des…
Recent developments in American society
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