Gerhard Lenski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586480 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerhard Lenski |
| NOMBRES | Gerhard |
| APELLIDO | Lenski |
| FIRMA | LENSKI G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 567 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1952 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ecological-Evolutionary Theory
For forty years, in a variety of books and articles, Gerhard Lenski has become the most influential proponent of ecological and evolutionary explanations of human societies, their development and transformations, from the Stone Age to the present. In his newest book, Lenski offers a succinct but comprehensive statement of the full body of his theory followed by demonstration of how it can be used to generate new and valuable insights when applied…
Social Transformation and Modernization
Ecological-Evolutionary Theory and Societal Transformation in Post-Communist Europe
Ecological-evolutionary theory offers a unique and distinctive perspec-tive on societal change.In particular, it draws attention to the enormous and revolu-tionary power of technological innovations as a source of change. Some of the implications of this for the post-Communist societies of middle and eastern Europe are then considered. Ecological-evolutionary theory also offers a unique and distinc-tive perspective on human nature, and the implic…
Technology, Ideology, and Societal Development
To address the question of whether ideology or technology has been the more powerful force shaping societies and their development, log-linear models are used to assess the association of typologies based on religious beliefs and on subsistence technology with indicators of: (1) community size, (2) political complexity, (3) stratification, (4) marital patterns, and (5) premarital sex norms. Using data derived from Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas, th…
Societal Taxonomies
Taxonomies have played a much more important role in the development of the sciences than is generally recognized by sociologists. They have provided both a foundation for the formulation of basic theory and a spur to innovative research. This paper traces the development from ancient times to the present of efforts to create a taxonomy of human societies, the most basic and inclusive of all social systems. It concludes with a discussion of the q…
Social Evolutionism
1. The Nature of Social Evolutionism 2. Classical Evolutionism 3. The Antievolutionary Reaction 4. Marxism as Evolutionism 5. The Evolutionary Revival 6. Sociological Neoevolutionism 7. Anthropological Evolutionism since 1960 8. Evolutionary Biology and Social Evolutionism 9. Contemporary Antievolutionism 10. Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Sociocultural Evolution References
Positivism's Future
The Rationality of Ancient Unreason and the Irrationality of Modern Reason
Hungary in April
Rethinking Macrosociological Theory
Macrosociologists have too long been complacent about the state and quality of their theory. If macrosociological theory is to progress, and not merely proliferate, several major changes are needed in the way theory is usually formulated. Above all, theories must become falsifiable. This will require that key concepts be stated in an operationally unambiguous manner and that relationships among variables also be specified unambiguously. In additi…
Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology
Trajectories of Development
Journal Article Trajectories of Development: A Further Test Get access Gerhard Lenski, Gerhard Lenski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Address correspondence to Gerhard Lenski, Department of Sociology, Hamilton Hall 070A, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick D. Nolan Patrick D. Nolan University of South Carolina Search for other works by th…
Technoeconomic Heritage, Patterns of Development, and the Advantage of Backwardness
Analysis of industrializing agrarian societies of the Third World reveals notable differences in demographic rates, levels and patterns of development, income distributions, and patterns of trade dependency that are linked to the length of time since the population of these societies made the shift from horticulture to agriculture. Furthermore, the fact that societies that made the shift more recently enjoy higher GNPs/capita supports the hypothe…
Sociology, Anthropology, and the Study of Human Societies
In his attack on my proposal for revamping the introductory course in sociology, Vivelo proposes to swallow much of the historic heartland of sociology in his own discipline of anthropology. Sociologists, he argues, should stick to teaching about contemporary American society and leave the rest of human experience to the anthropologists. Unfortunately, many sociologists s'eem willing to do just that, but one wonders what Auguste Comte, Herbert Sp…
Trajectories of Development
To test a fundamental hypothesis of ecological-evolutionary theory, that technical and economic heritage affects current rates and patterns of development, Third World societies were classified as “industrializing agrarian” or “industrializing horticultural” on the basis of their dominant subsistence technologies prior to sustained contact with industrial societies and industrial technology, and then compared on five basic dimensions: (1) current…
Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology
Rethinking the Introductory Course
harm because of its superficial, encyclopedic nature. It has been a mistake to design this course as the foundation for work in subsequent courses when so many who enroll in it never take another course in sociology. At the same time, it is impossible to provide a comprehensive introduction to the entire field in a single term. The present course should be replaced by: (1) Human Societies, an introduction to macrosociology; (2) American Society, …
Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology
In Appreciation of Everett K. Wilson's Contribution to Sociology
In Appreciation of Everett K. Wilson's Contribution to Sociology Get access Gerhard Lenski Gerhard Lenski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 4, June 1981, Pages 898–899, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/59.4.898 Published: 01 June 1981
Classes, Strata and Power
In Praise of Mosca and Michels
Probabilism Reasserted
The Concept of Cultural System
Human Societies
Part 1 Theoretical foundations: the human situation human societies as sociocultural systems the evolution of human societies types of human societies. Part 2 Pre-industrial societies: hunting and gathering societies horticultural societies agrarian societies some evolutionary bypaths and a brief review. Part 3 Industrial societies and industrializing societies: the Industrial Revolution industrial societies - technologies and economies, ideologi…
Ecodynamics
Status Crystallization
IN recent years there have been numerous indications that, in the analysis of social stratification, sociology is rapidly outgrowing the classical conceptual schemes inherited from the past. Critically inclined students have come increasingly to recognize the inability of the older schemes to incorporate many of the findings of present day research, or to adapt themselves to newer theoretical concerns. This trend is evident even with respect to s…
Social Participation and Status Crystallization
The conclusion concerning the relationship of ethnic origin and class position to casual neighboring relations is a general confirmation of the hypothesis proposed. When considered in terms of the two variables defined, predisposition to interpersonal contact and actual neighboring behavior, it was found that casual neighboring is a function both of the respondent's class position and of his ethnic membership. In a general sense members of lower-…
Rethinking Macrosociological Theory
Macrosociologists have too long been complacent about the state and quality of their theory. If macrosociological theory is to progress, and not merely proliferate, several major changes are needed in the way theory is usually formulated. Above all, theories must become falsifiable. This will require that key concepts be stated in an operationally unambiguous manner and that relationships among variables also be specified unambiguously. In additi…
Status Inconsistency and the Vote
would be crucial for the interpretation and growth of current theories to the extent that differentials in these responses produce the differentials observed in the rates of completions.5' personal Relations in Suicidal Attempts, Archives of General Psychiatry, 4 (1961); Arthur Kobler and Ezra Stotland, The End of Hope, London: The Free Press, 1964. 51 For some suggestive data on this possibility, one source to consult is Rubenstein, et al., op. …
Caste, Class, and Deference in the Research Interview
To test the influence of the defence norm on low-status respondent when questioned by middleclass interviewers, a cross-section of Detroiters were asked their views concerning two mutually contradictory propositions used at widely separated points in the interview. As predicted, the norm led in nearly 8 per cent to agree with both statements despite their highly contradictory character. This raises serious questions concerning the validity of the…
Societal Taxonomies
Taxonomies have played a much more important role in the development of the sciences than is generally recognized by sociologists. They have provided both a foundation for the formulation of basic theory and a spur to innovative research. This paper traces the development from ancient times to the present of efforts to create a taxonomy of human societies, the most basic and inclusive of all social systems. It concludes with a discussion of the q…
Human Societies
Ecological-Evolutionary Theory
For forty years, in a variety of books and articles, Gerhard Lenski has become the most influential proponent of ecological and evolutionary explanations of human societies, their development and transformations, from the Stone Age to the present. In his newest book, Lenski offers a succinct but comprehensive statement of the full body of his theory followed by demonstration of how it can be used to generate new and valuable insights when applied…
Social Correlates of Religious Interest
attempt to test this hypothesis involved the tape recording in the adjoining room. Subjects were asked to fill out a multiple-choice test based on the content of that recording. The problem set by the test was one of correct recognition of the material reproduced from the tape. Analysis of the data gives no indication of a difference between A and D groups in the recall of this material. The within-group variation is great, as is that between gro…
Rethinking the Introductory Course
harm because of its superficial, encyclopedic nature. It has been a mistake to design this course as the foundation for work in subsequent courses when so many who enroll in it never take another course in sociology. At the same time, it is impossible to provide a comprehensive introduction to the entire field in a single term. The present course should be replaced by: (1) Human Societies, an introduction to macrosociology; (2) American Society, …
Human Societies
Technoeconomic Heritage, Patterns of Development, and the Advantage of Backwardness
Analysis of industrializing agrarian societies of the Third World reveals notable differences in demographic rates, levels and patterns of development, income distributions, and patterns of trade dependency that are linked to the length of time since the population of these societies made the shift from horticulture to agriculture. Furthermore, the fact that societies that made the shift more recently enjoy higher GNPs/capita supports the hypothe…
Trajectories of Development
To test a fundamental hypothesis of ecological-evolutionary theory, that technical and economic heritage affects current rates and patterns of development, Third World societies were classified as “industrializing agrarian” or “industrializing horticultural” on the basis of their dominant subsistence technologies prior to sustained contact with industrial societies and industrial technology, and then compared on five basic dimensions: (1) current…
Marxist Experiments in Destratification
Journal Article Marxist Experiments in Destratification: An Appraisal* Gerhard Lenski Gerhard Lenski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 57, Issue 2, December 1978, Pages 364–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/57.2.364 Published: 01 December 1978
History and Social Change
In Social Change and History, Robert Nisbet challenged the new evolutionary theory on epistemological, methodological, and substantive grounds. This paper examines each of Nisbet's charges and concludes that his oft-praised volume provides a misleading view of the new evolutionism and a less than satisfactory guide to the study of social change. Above all, Nisbet's charge that the new evolutionism is based on metaphor and analogy ignores entirely…
The Religious Factor in Detroit
at least equally reasonable conclusion, would have been that an important linking hypothesis had been tested and disconfirmed, raising the problem of whether the earlier findings meant what they seemed to mean about religious differences. While the specific implications of this paper have to do with the Protestant Ethic thesis as developed by Lenski, there is surely a larger implication concerning the place of replication in empirical sociology. …
Technology, Ideology, and Societal Development
To address the question of whether ideology or technology has been the more powerful force shaping societies and their development, log-linear models are used to assess the association of typologies based on religious beliefs and on subsistence technology with indicators of: (1) community size, (2) political complexity, (3) stratification, (4) marital patterns, and (5) premarital sex norms. Using data derived from Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas, th…
Positivism's Future
Trends in Inter-Generational Occupational Mobility in the United States
of this range in a population is so much a matter of the particular circumstances of the country concerned that a standard definition of in terms of a cutting point within this range (for example, 2,500 inhabitants) would introduce distortion rather than standardization into comparative analysis. If a cutting point is desired, it seems better to take 10,000 as the floor of the class than anything smaller. Finally, it is worth noting that the rela…
American Social Classes
Students of stratification currently disagree on the question of whether American social classes are social entities recognized as such by the average citizen or whether they are merely heuristic concept created by the social analyst. Data gathered in research on a southern New England mill town indicate that, while a prestige status system exists in that town, local residents do not perceive this system as a series of discrete social classes. Th…
Sociobiology
Ressenya de l'obra d'E. O. Wilson apareguda el 1975, Sociobiology. The New Synthesis .The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Power and Privilege
Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and syste…
Ecological-Evolutionary Theory and Societal Transformation in Post-Communist Europe
Ecological-evolutionary theory offers a unique and distinctive perspec-tive on societal change.In particular, it draws attention to the enormous and revolu-tionary power of technological innovations as a source of change. Some of the implications of this for the post-Communist societies of middle and eastern Europe are then considered. Ecological-evolutionary theory also offers a unique and distinc-tive perspective on human nature, and the implic…
Sociology, Anthropology, and the Study of Human Societies
In his attack on my proposal for revamping the introductory course in sociology, Vivelo proposes to swallow much of the historic heartland of sociology in his own discipline of anthropology. Sociologists, he argues, should stick to teaching about contemporary American society and leave the rest of human experience to the anthropologists. Unfortunately, many sociologists s'eem willing to do just that, but one wonders what Auguste Comte, Herbert Sp…
Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology
American Social Classes
Students of stratification currently disagree on the question of whether American social classes are social entities recognized as such by the average citizen or whether they are merely heuristic concept created by the social analyst. Data gathered in research on a southern New England mill town indicate that, while a prestige status system exists in that town, local residents do not perceive this system as a series of discrete social classes. Th…
Social Correlates of Religious Interest
attempt to test this hypothesis involved the tape recording in the adjoining room. Subjects were asked to fill out a multiple-choice test based on the content of that recording. The problem set by the test was one of correct recognition of the material reproduced from the tape. Analysis of the data gives no indication of a difference between A and D groups in the recall of this material. The within-group variation is great, as is that between gro…
Status Crystallization
IN recent years there have been numerous indications that, in the analysis of social stratification, sociology is rapidly outgrowing the classical conceptual schemes inherited from the past. Critically inclined students have come increasingly to recognize the inability of the older schemes to incorporate many of the findings of present day research, or to adapt themselves to newer theoretical concerns. This trend is evident even with respect to s…
Social Stratification in the United States
Social Participation and Status Crystallization
The conclusion concerning the relationship of ethnic origin and class position to casual neighboring relations is a general confirmation of the hypothesis proposed. When considered in terms of the two variables defined, predisposition to interpersonal contact and actual neighboring behavior, it was found that casual neighboring is a function both of the respondent's class position and of his ethnic membership. In a general sense members of lower-…
Trends in Inter-Generational Occupational Mobility in the United States
of this range in a population is so much a matter of the particular circumstances of the country concerned that a standard definition of in terms of a cutting point within this range (for example, 2,500 inhabitants) would introduce distortion rather than standardization into comparative analysis. If a cutting point is desired, it seems better to take 10,000 as the floor of the class than anything smaller. Finally, it is worth noting that the rela…
Small Town in Mass Society
People of Coal Town. Herman R. Lantz , J. S. McCrary Millways of Kent. John Kenneth Morland Small Town in Mass Society
Religion and the Modern Metropolis
Caste, Class, and Deference in the Research Interview
To test the influence of the defence norm on low-status respondent when questioned by middleclass interviewers, a cross-section of Detroiters were asked their views concerning two mutually contradictory propositions used at widely separated points in the interview. As predicted, the norm led in nearly 8 per cent to agree with both statements despite their highly contradictory character. This raises serious questions concerning the validity of the…
Bridges to Understanding
The Religious Factor
The Religious Factor
Religion's Impact on Secular Institutions
Sources of Religious Sentiment. Maurice Halbwachs , John A. Spaulding
The Religious Factor
Class Structure in the Social Consciousness
Titles in this highly international set consider every problem of socio-political importance that affected society in the years following the Second World War. This set includes important texts by key social and political theorists including Stanislaw Ossowski, as well as extensive comparative material from China, Palestine, the USA, South Africa and Great Britain. Drawing on important empirical material, titles included here consider in-depth qu…
Religion and the American People
Religion and Career
The Religious Factor
Power and Privilege
Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and syste…
Power and Privilege
Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification. By Gerhard Lenski. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Pp. xiv, 495. $8.50 Robert Hassenger Robert Hassenger University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 27, Issue 4, Winter 1966, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710467 Published: 01 December 1966
Religion's Impact on Secular Institutions
Status Inconsistency and the Vote
would be crucial for the interpretation and growth of current theories to the extent that differentials in these responses produce the differentials observed in the rates of completions.5' personal Relations in Suicidal Attempts, Archives of General Psychiatry, 4 (1961); Arthur Kobler and Ezra Stotland, The End of Hope, London: The Free Press, 1964. 51 For some suggestive data on this possibility, one source to consult is Rubenstein, et al., op. …
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