Walter L Wallace
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 113258 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Walter L Wallace |
| NOMBRES | Walter L |
| APELLIDO | Wallace |
| FIRMA | WALLACE W L |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Introduction to Part III
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part addresses questions having to do with the overall methods and philosophical premises that scientific sociology shares in common with all other natural sciences, and closes with a discussion of some leading objections to regarding sociology as scientific and therefore to applying these methods and premises to it. It rests on the claim tha…
Social Structure
This chapter attempts conceptually to differentiate components and kinds of social structure–defined generically as the regular coincidence of two or more individual organisms&s; physical behaviors. Through all physical behaviors the individual&s;s beliefs, desires, and skills are affected–some are constructed, some destroyed, some reinforced so that they may be carried in memory from one time and place to another. Extracting-fabricating behavior…
Spatial and Temporal Regularities
This chapter examines ways of describing spatial and temporal regularities in the coincidence of physical and/or psychical behaviors of two or more organisms. It tries to systematize the way sociological analysts who adhere to natural science assumptions and procedures conceptualize spatial and temporal regularities in social phenomena–independently of how the participants in those social phenomena conceptualize these regularities, and independen…
External People Variables–Mind
This chapter looks at two types of sociological explanatory variables that claim causal power for the psychical behavior of people in each participant&s;s environment. Psychical contagionistic variables are the environmental counterparts of instinctivistic variables, and rely on the presumed innate abilities of individuals to send and receive messages of determinate content. Herbert Blumer&s;s description of "circular reaction" indicates what is …
External People Variables-Body
This chapter looks at two sociological explanatory variables that claim causal power for physical behavior of the people in each participant&s;s environment. The group of sociological explanatory variables denoted by "demographism" should be distinguished from "demography." Demographistic variables occur frequently in analyses of nonhuman social phenomena. Demographistic variables are the environmental counterparts of materialistic variables. The…
General Introduction
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that sociology is, in its actual practice as well as its abstract design, one of the natural sciences–that is, much more akin to biology, chemistry, and physics than to philosophy, poetry, or religion–and everything in it should be regarded as explicating this view. It addresses what makes scientific sociology "sociology,"…
Many-Variable Causal Models
This chapter addresses the general problem: In what ways are multiple causes held to impinge upon a given social phenomenon that the analyst wishes to explain, and in what ways are multiple effects held to proceed from such a phenomenon. It inquires about the form of relations between variables that represent hypothesized causes and hypothesized effects of social phenomena. The chapter examines some principles governing the way complex causal exp…
Concluding Remarks
Chapter 1 promised this book would try to explicate an already existing, but largely unrecognized, consensus in scientific sociology and to derive from that consensus a matalanguage which might serve as rules-of-the-game for all the controversies that rightfully characterize our discipline.
Pure Science
This chapter examines three kinds of referents of observations, and then discusses the derivation of generalizations across such observations, and the way such empirical generalizations are constructed and how they set the limits of explanations. It considers explanations and predictions, and the two principles (causation and subsumption) on which they both rest. The chapter discusses the roles of these principles in discriminating between theori…
Applied Science
This chapter addresses planning, wherein alternative ways of exerting control over some phenomenon (called here the desideratum) are described and measured with respect to their physical feasibility, and their costs and benefits to various parts of society. It examines the role of politics in decision-making, as were some elementary aspects of decision-making itself. The dominant effect is to make the politics of the implementation process highly…
Introduction to Part II
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part discusses conceptual partitionings of existentially given and socially influenced variables inasmuch as both types of variables can explain social phenomena and the latter can also be explained by social phenomena. It introduces a classification of twelve types of sociological explanatory variables, all of which seem necessary for a comp…
External Thing Variables
This chapter discusses final pair of sociological explanatory variables: ecologism and technologism. These variables refer to both living and nonliving things: animal, vegetable, and mineral; solids, liquids, and gases; space-time; the strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational interactions. Gary T. Marx and Frederick Engels are undoubtedly the most outstanding classical proponents of technologism, alloyed, of course, with materialism, soci…
Introduction to Part I
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the first part of this book. The part presents a generic definition of social phenomena, describes its intended scope and limits of reference, derives from it the four components of every social phenomenon, and examines some of the relevant sociological and sociobiological literature. It differentiates the physical behaviors of individuals and the social structures that …
Premises of Scientific Procedure, and Objections to Employing that Procedure in Sociology
This chapter examines natural science premises concerning the fundamental uniformity and universalism of nature, and concerning the fundamental interchangeability of human beings who seek to understand and control that nature. Two premises here seem crucial to natural science. First, whatever nature "really" is, we assume that it presents itself in precisely the same way to the same human observer standing at different points in time and space; a…
Cultural Structure
This chapter tries to formulate some principles for describing cultural structure– defined as interorganism psychical behavior regularities. It also tries to specify kinds of psychical behaviors; certain aggregates, within the same individual, of such behaviors; certain aggregates, across different individuals, of such behaviors; and certain forms assumed by the coincidences, between individuals, of these behaviors and their aggregates. The chapt…
Hierarchic Structure in Social Phenomena
This chapter tries to explicate the concept of hierarchic structure, to demonstrate its consistently pivotal but too often unconscious and incomplete role in describing social phenomena, and to suggest ways of systematizing that role. It discusses the principle of hierarchic structure will be applied to the description of complex social phenomena by taking into account the four variants of hierarchic structure. The chapter attempts to develop a "…
Internal Variables
This chapter examines the four types of explanatory variables internal to social participants. Materialistic variables were described as referring to innate characteristics of the participant&s;s body, including both intake needs and output capabilities. Nurturistic variables were described as referring to the same characteristics as materialism, but in their socially influenced aspects. Gary T. Marx and Frederick Engels are among the classical p…
Sociological Theory
The Logic of Science in Sociology
The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or "logic" of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves a practical role in the sociology and history of science by providing a framework for reducing the enormous variety of scientific researches-both within a given field and across all fields-to a limited number of interrelated formal elements. Such a fra…
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. It is clear, well-organized, innovative, and original in its discussion of the context and methods of sociology conceived as a natural science. Wallace delineates the subject matter of sociology, classifies its variables, presents a logic of inquiry, and advocates the use of this logic for the acceptance or rejection of hypot…
The future of ethnicity, race, and nationality
A Darwinian Theory of Ethnicity, "Race," and Nationality
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln (1971:40) Introduction The figure summarizes this paper. The theory it proposes views large-scale human sociocultural evolution (aka world history) as a Darwinian speciation cycle that started with the origin of Homo sapiens somewhere in the Great Rift Valley of east Africa, proceeded to the worldwide dispersion of s…
The Future of Ethnicity, Race and Nationality
The Future of Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality
Progress in sociology
The Logic of Science in Sociology
The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or logic of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves a practical role in the sociology and history of science by providing a framework for reducing the enormous variety of scientific researches-both within a given field and across all fields-to a limited number of interrelated formal elements. Such a frame…
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. It is clear, well-organized, innovative, and original in its discussion of the context and methods of sociology conceived as a natural science. Wallace delineates the subject matter of sociology, classifies its variables, presents a logic of inquiry, and advocates the use of this logic for the acceptance or rejection of hypot…
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. It is clear, well-organized, innovative, and original in its discussion of the context and methods of sociology conceived as a natural science. Wallace delineates the subject matter of sociology, classifies its variables, presents a logic of inquiry, and advocates the use of this logic for the acceptance or rejection of hypot…
The Logic of Science in Sociology
Institutional and Life-Cycle Socialization of College Freshmen
The leved if importance that student attached to getting good grades is higher and the level of their graduate aspirations lower at the time of their entry into college than at any other time in their Freshman year. Attitudinal change among college Freshmen during their first seven weeks of college experience seems sufficiently rapid and pervasive as seriously to question the validity of any single observation as being representative of Freshmen,…
Rationality, human nature, and society in Weber's theory
Sociological Theory
The Logic of Science in Sociology
The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or "logic" of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves a practical role in the sociology and history of science by providing a framework for reducing the enormous variety of scientific researches-both within a given field and across all fields-to a limited number of interrelated formal elements. Such a fra…
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Peer Influences and Undergraduates' Aspirations for Graduate Study
Alexandrian Sociology Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Vol. 2
Institutional and Life-Cycle Socialization of College Freshmen
The leved if importance that student attached to getting good grades is higher and the level of their graduate aspirations lower at the time of their entry into college than at any other time in their Freshman year. Attitudinal change among college Freshmen during their first seven weeks of college experience seems sufficiently rapid and pervasive as seriously to question the validity of any single observation as being representative of Freshmen,…
Peer Influences and Undergraduates' Aspirations for Graduate Study
Teaching Styles and Learning. Daniel Solomon , William E. Bezdek , Larry Rosenberg
Values and Organizations
Student Culture
Toward a Theoretic Synthesis in Sociology
(1968). Toward a Theoretic Synthesis in Sociology. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 440-478
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
The Logic of Science in Sociology
The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or logic of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves a practical role in the sociology and history of science by providing a framework for reducing the enormous variety of scientific researches-both within a given field and across all fields-to a limited number of interrelated formal elements. Such a frame…
The Logic of Science in Sociology
La lógica de la ciencia en la sociología
Black Elected Officials
Black Progress - and Reality
Black Elected Officials
Sociological Formalism and Structural-Function Analysis
What is Sociology
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology
Alexandrian Sociology Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Vol. 2
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. It is clear, well-organized, innovative, and original in its discussion of the context and methods of sociology conceived as a natural science. Wallace delineates the subject matter of sociology, classifies its variables, presents a logic of inquiry, and advocates the use of this logic for the acceptance or rejection of hypot…
The Scientific Analysis of Social Behaviour
Principles of Scientific Sociology
Causal Images in Sociology
Sociological Methodology in the Handbook
Sociological Theories in Disarray
Standardizing basic concepts in sociology
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