Ira J Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 102076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira J Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN I J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Satellite Systems (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Personal Sociology: Finding Meanings in Everyday Life
D avid V incent . A History of Solitude
Solitude is commonly conceived as an absence of social contact or interaction. This definition admits religious virtuosos on solitary retreats and lonely individuals for whom solitude is an involuntary condition. But in the main this is a negative definition, confining solitude to the far edges of society and rendering it unworthy of much attention. However, solitude springs to life as a fertile field for inquiry when we consider that during the …
General Economic History
In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; ratio…
Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity
Introduction.Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity.Mustafa Emirbayer.Part I: Sociological Methodology:1. An Agenda for Sociology.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:Suicide.Modern Selections:Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.Pierre Bourdieu.Part II: A Topography of Modernity.2. Social Structure and Collective Consciousness.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Division of Labor in Society.On Institutional Analysis.Modern Sele…
Marx and modernity: Key readings and commentary
Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary
In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.
The Contemporary Giddens: Social Theory in a Globalizing Age
R.S.Boynton Anthony Giddens, Tony Blair and the Third Way M.Temple PART V: A DIALOGUE WITH ANTHONY GIDDENS The Reflexive Giddens: Christopher Bryant and David Jary in Dialogue with Anthony Giddens PART VI: BIBLIOGRAPHIES Works by Anthony Giddens 1960-2000 Works on Giddens or which Use Giddens Index
The Unknown Max Weber
Anthony Giddens
As if by intuition, Anthony Giddens has always gravitated to the intersecting strengths of theoretical positions. As early as Capitalism and Social Theory which helped bring Marx into the sociological mainstream in 1971, Giddens proposed that for all of their differences Marx, Durkheim and Weber address a common agenda of problems in the analysis of modern society. 1 More recently, as centrifugal forces have carried bits and pieces of Marx, Durkh…
Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies.Nicos Mouzelis
Autonomy and Credibility: Voice as Method
Although little noticed by practicing theorists, narrative voice influences theoretical work. This essay presents a demonstration of voice as method, concentrating on brief segments of works by Garfinkel and Goffman. We attend to two methodological themes: how theorists use voice to establish intellectual autonomy, and how the use of voice influences credibility with readers. Garfinkel maximizes his autonomy by using narrative techniques that iso…
Anthony Giddens
Durkheim and Postmodern Culture
Giddens' Theory of Structuration: A Critical Appreciation
Introduction - coming to terms with Anthony Giddens, Christopher G.A. Bryant and David Jary the California-Massachusetts strain in structuration theory, Alan Sica power-knowledge and social theory - the systematic misrepresentation of contemporary French social theory in the work of Anthony Giddens, Roy Boyne structuration theory as a world-view, Richard Kilminster society as time-traveller - Giddens on historical change, historical materialism a…
Giddens' Theory of Structuration. A Critical Appreciation
Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics
Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of Social Life
Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction
Social Action and Human Nature.Axel Honneth , Hans Joas , Raymond Myers
The Organisation of Social Systems: ‘A Non-Functionalist Manifesto’
In the glossary included in The Constitution of Society (p. 377) Giddens defines a social system as ‘the patterning of social relations across time-space understood as reproduced practices’. This definition correctly establishes the centrality of praxis in the constitution of systems, and it also implies a concern for spatio-temporal articulations (via modes of social and system integration) through which the morphological patterns of systems are…
Administered Systems: Power and Domination
In the last chapter I introduced the term ‘administered systems’ as a synonym for the self-reflexive mode of system organisation. The term ‘administered systems’ is appropriate because in systems of this kind the reproduction of activities, the consequences of activities, and systemic relations across time and space are coordinated and controlled through the exercise of administrative procedures which ultimately are meant to serve the intentions …
Structure, Position-Practices, and Enablement/Constraint
In this chapter and the next I shall be dealing with topics regarding the nature and implications of structural concepts in structuration theory. The present chapter considers issues involved in institutionalised activities and relations as conceived from a structural point of view, while the following chapter considers the analysis of structure and conditions that foster structural change with special attention to the structural properties of so…
Structural Analysis, Societies, Societal Change
While the present chapter sustains an interest in structural themes, the issues to be discussed are conceived from a point of view that departs considerably from the way structure was dealt with in Chapter 6. In the first instance this is because attention now shifts from the implication of structure in specific practices and position-practices to the structural properties of collectivities. But the more significant point is that in making this m…
Closing Remarks: Beyond Ontology
In the introduction to this book I said that my efforts would be directed to the clarification and explication of the ontology of social life initiated in Giddens’s writings on structuration theory. That task is now complete. But it would be misleading to leave the impression that structuration theory itself should be regarded as a fully-developed project. Giddens has given no indication that the concepts and insights which presently are incorpor…
Latter-Day Morphology and Social Praxis: A Critique
Although critiques of alternative theoretical traditions appear as backdrops elsewhere in this book, this is the only chapter devoted entirely to an exposition and critique of views that fall outside the ambit of structuration theory. The chapter is designed to fill a prominent gap in Giddens’s writings with regard to the development of his thought on the articulation and patterning of social systems in time and space, a topic which will be cover…
General Economic History
In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; ratio…
Structuration Theory
Durkheim and Postmodern Culture
Giddens' Theory of Structuration. A Critical Appreciation
Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of Social Life
Autonomy and Credibility: Voice as Method
Although little noticed by practicing theorists, narrative voice influences theoretical work. This essay presents a demonstration of voice as method, concentrating on brief segments of works by Garfinkel and Goffman. We attend to two methodological themes: how theorists use voice to establish intellectual autonomy, and how the use of voice influences credibility with readers. Garfinkel maximizes his autonomy by using narrative techniques that iso…
The Status of Structuration Theory: A Reply to McLennan
Functionalism in Modern Sociology: Understanding Talcott Parsons
The Auction System in the Port of New York, 1817–1837
Professor Cohen recounts the operations of the famed auction system in New York, suggesting reasons for its success in the years after the War of 1812 and its decline in the decade of the 1830's
Banking in the American South: From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction
Journal Article Banking in the American South: From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xv + 367 pp. $35.00.) Get access Ira Cohen Ira Cohen Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 939–940, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901612 Published: 01 December…
On Hechter's Interpretation of Weber
The Japanese Social Structure: Its Evolution in the Modern Century. Tadashi Fukutake , Ronald P. Dore
The Auction System in the Port of New York, 1817–1837
Professor Cohen recounts the operations of the famed auction system in New York, suggesting reasons for its success in the years after the War of 1812 and its decline in the decade of the 1830's
On Hechter's Interpretation of Weber
Functionalism in Modern Sociology: Understanding Talcott Parsons
Toward a Theory of State Intervention: The Nationalization of the British Telegraphs
State intervention into the ownership, financing, and regulation of various industries and sectors of the capitalist economy is a phenomenon as old as capitalism itself. In the last 15 years this topic has become a focal point of vigorous interest among social scientists. Given the manifest problems to be found within current political-economic relationships, it is not surprising that a great deal of this attention has been focused on the contemp…
Toward a Theory of State Intervention: The Nationalization of the British Telegraphs
Breaking New Ground in the Analysis of Capitalism
The Japanese Social Structure: Its Evolution in the Modern Century. Tadashi Fukutake , Ronald P. Dore
On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America. Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life
Comte and the early period statistics logical positivism laws and explanation theory and evidence
The Spellbinders: Charismatic Political Leadership
The Status of Structuration Theory: A Reply to McLennan
The Production of Society: A Marxian Foundation for Social Theory. Michael E. Brown
Banking in the American South: From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction
Journal Article Banking in the American South: From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xv + 367 pp. $35.00.) Get access Ira Cohen Ira Cohen Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 939–940, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901612 Published: 01 December…
The Organisation of Social Systems: ‘A Non-Functionalist Manifesto’
In the glossary included in The Constitution of Society (p. 377) Giddens defines a social system as ‘the patterning of social relations across time-space understood as reproduced practices’. This definition correctly establishes the centrality of praxis in the constitution of systems, and it also implies a concern for spatio-temporal articulations (via modes of social and system integration) through which the morphological patterns of systems are…
Administered Systems: Power and Domination
In the last chapter I introduced the term ‘administered systems’ as a synonym for the self-reflexive mode of system organisation. The term ‘administered systems’ is appropriate because in systems of this kind the reproduction of activities, the consequences of activities, and systemic relations across time and space are coordinated and controlled through the exercise of administrative procedures which ultimately are meant to serve the intentions …
Structure, Position-Practices, and Enablement/Constraint
In this chapter and the next I shall be dealing with topics regarding the nature and implications of structural concepts in structuration theory. The present chapter considers issues involved in institutionalised activities and relations as conceived from a structural point of view, while the following chapter considers the analysis of structure and conditions that foster structural change with special attention to the structural properties of so…
Structural Analysis, Societies, Societal Change
While the present chapter sustains an interest in structural themes, the issues to be discussed are conceived from a point of view that departs considerably from the way structure was dealt with in Chapter 6. In the first instance this is because attention now shifts from the implication of structure in specific practices and position-practices to the structural properties of collectivities. But the more significant point is that in making this m…
Closing Remarks: Beyond Ontology
In the introduction to this book I said that my efforts would be directed to the clarification and explication of the ontology of social life initiated in Giddens’s writings on structuration theory. That task is now complete. But it would be misleading to leave the impression that structuration theory itself should be regarded as a fully-developed project. Giddens has given no indication that the concepts and insights which presently are incorpor…
Latter-Day Morphology and Social Praxis: A Critique
Although critiques of alternative theoretical traditions appear as backdrops elsewhere in this book, this is the only chapter devoted entirely to an exposition and critique of views that fall outside the ambit of structuration theory. The chapter is designed to fill a prominent gap in Giddens’s writings with regard to the development of his thought on the articulation and patterning of social systems in time and space, a topic which will be cover…
The Patterning and Articulation of Systems Across Time and Space
Subject to the charge of excessive formalism, lacking a basis in social praxis , neglectful of the time-space constitution of social patterns; all of these problems damage the credibility of latter-day social morphology. Yet the importance of the subject-matter to which morphologists attend cannot be denied. Issues central to their work, such as the articulation and configuration of patterns in the relations between actors, have figured prominent…
Structuration theory: Anthony Giddens and the constitution of social life
Structuration Theory
Structuration Theory and Social Praxis
Human beings ‘make their own history, but not in circumstances of their own choosing’ (Marx, 1963, p. 15; for variations, see Simmel, 1950, pp. 12–13; Vico, 1968, pp. 382–3, para. 1108) is an aphorism that appears more cogent in the preface to most works in social theory than it does in the conclusions. There is, of course, a substantial body of theory and research that illustrates various processes and procedures through which social action is p…
Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of Social Life
Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction
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