Arthur L Stinchcombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 119544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur L Stinchcombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur L |
| FAMILY NAME | Stinchcombe |
| SIGNATURE | STINCHCOMBE A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 142 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 142 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Faut-il tuer pères et mères en sociologie
Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power
Information and Organizations
An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a delightful mix of large theoretical insights and vivid anecdotal material, Stinchcombe explores the ins and outs of organizations from both a macro and …
Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study
This chapter argues that the professionalization of the labor force in the construction industry serves the same functions as bureaucratic administration in mass production industries and is more rational than bureaucratic administration in the face of economic and technical constraints on construction projects. Craft institutions in construction are more than craft trade unions; they are also a method of administering work. The association betwe…
Merton’s Theory of Social Structure
Of all contemporary theorists of social structure, Robert K. Merton has had the greatest impact on empirical research. Investigators find it easy to understand how Merton's general ideas about social structure imply hypotheses about the pattern of behavior and the pattern Qf associations between variables in the setting in which their research is conducted. The chapter argues that the core process that Merton conceives as central to social struct…
Social Structure and Organizations 1
"Field of Forces" and World Culture
Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys
Consent to Sex: The Liberal Paradigm Reformulated
Purpose, Meaning, and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology
Cooperation Without Trust
The Logic of Social Research
Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of logical problems that all methods must address to study social causati…
Law Facts
This review article is not dedicated to a subject matter of research. Instead it outlines various kinds of facts commonly used to analyze the relations of law and society. To illustrate, it gives examples of eight distinct kinds of facts on how action departs from relevant laws on the books: actions in crusades; actions following deep norms when coordination norms are in conflict with them; police culture undermining legal citizen protection; cor…
Social structure and organizations
The general topic of this chapter is the relation of the society outside organizations to the internal life of organizations. Part of the specific topics have to do with the effect of society on organizations, and part of them concern the effects of organizational variables on the surrounding social environment. I intend to interpret the term “social structure” in the title in a very general sense, to include groups, institutions, laws, populatio…
Cultures of Discipline: Law Teaches Hawaii to Become a Colony
Sally Merry's Colonizing Hawaii tells us about the nineteenth-century penetration of Hawaii by colonial cultures and structures while the island was still independent. Neocolonialism before Colonialism might be an alternative title. She analyzes five kinds of discipline imposed on or induced in Hawaii between about the 1820s and the early twentieth century: (1) the disciplining of everyday life of Hawaiians by puritanical New England missionaries…
Cultures of Discipline: Law Teaches Hawaii to Become a Colony
The Preconditions of World Capitalism: Weber Updated
Formalization: Reflection or Construction
Liberalism and Collective Investments in Repertoires
The true end of Man . . . is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes; but there is besides another essential—intimately connected with freedom, it is true—a variety of situations. Even the most free and self‐reliant of men is hindered in his development, when set in a monotonous situation.—…
Retooling for the Next Century: Sober Methods for Studying the Subconscious
Introduction In the last few years of this century, a number of sociologists have, in one way or another, theorized about and investigated connections between people's conscious behavior and socially learned habits, preferences, or cognitions that are subconscious or semiconscious: Bourdieu's (1984) concept of habilus; Bourdieu's (1984) praxis or Giddens's practical consciousness (1984: 375); Goffman's (1963) careful study of the subconscious par…
Institutional Change and Projections: A Comment
This comment is in response to Frederic L. Pryor (2000). “The Millennium Survey: How Economists View the U.S. Economy in the 21 st Century.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 59 (January), pp. 3‐33
Certainty of the Law: Reasons, Situation‐Types, Analogy, and Equilibrium
Ending Revolutions and Building New Governments
Revolutions may be defined as periods in which the rate of change of power positions of factions, social groups, or armed bodies changes rapidly and unpredictably. Revolutions then come to an end to the degree that political uncertainty is reduced by building enough bargains into a political structure that can maintain those bargains. The paper summarizes what we know about the structures that can produce such decreases in uncertainty: conservati…
Roads from Past to Future
Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction: Ways of Knowing Chapter 3 Future Social Science Chapter 4 Invisible Elbow Part 5 Contention and Social Change Chapter 6 The Modernization of Political Conflict in France Chapter 7 Does Modernization Breed Revolution?: Cities, Bourgeois, and Revolution in France Part 8 Power and Inequality Chapter 9 War Making and State Making as Organized Crime Chapter 10 Democracy is a Lake Chapter 11 Parlimentarization of…
The social structure of liquidity: Flexibility, markets, and states
Constructing social theories
"Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract—or applied a priori to a problem—but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association…
On the Virtues of the Old Institutionalism
Institutions are staffed and are created to do the job of regulating organizations. This staffing, and all the creative work that is involved in financing, governing, training, and motivating institutional actions by that staff in organizations, has been lost in recent institutional theorizing. This staffing was central to the old institutionalism, which is why it looked so different. The argument is exemplified by applying the insights of classi…
The social structure of liquidity: Flexibility, markets, and states
The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing About Mechanisms in Social Science
Mechanisms in a theory are defined here as bits of theory about entities at a different level (e.g., individuals) than the main entities being theorized about (e.g., groups), which serve to make the higher-level theory more supple, more accurate, or more general. The criterion for whether it is worthwhile to theorize at lower levels is whether it makes the theory at the higher levels better, not whether lower-level theorizing is philosophically n…
Institutions of Privacy in the Determination of Police Administrative Practice
Legal institutions in modern societies define private and public places and define appropriate police activity differently for crimes occurring in private and public places. Since urban and rural areas differ in the distribution of private and public places, with denser public places in cities, police practice in urban and rural areas is different. And crimes of different types are systematically distributed; some, like murder, are almost entirel…
Social Mobility in Industrial Labor Markets
Labor market barriers can be defined as a preference by employers for people experienced either in their own firms, or in similar work in other firms. Such barriers follow industrial lines, especially in industries with skilled workers and high mobility. The employers' preferences in turn give the experienced workers extra returns. Mobility data from Norway, analyzed by a new industrial classification, show the effects of labor market barriers on…
Salience of Crime and Support for Harsher Criminal Sanctions
This paper examines the relation between the salience of crime and support for harsher legal sanctions (capital punishment, harsher courts) in American public opinion. Many of the “simple theories” of effect are not supported. People who are more afraid or who have been victimized do not necessarily favor harsher sanctions. At the ecological level, in environments which are characterized by higher rates of crime and greater fear of crime, respond…
Cooperation Without Trust
Nonresponse Bias for Attitude Questions
By separating respondents in a survey of farmers into those who refused to be interviewed and were converted, those who were hard to reach, and those who gave no problems, we can estimate nonresponse bias from refusers not converted and respondents not reached. We show that for attitude questions the refusal bias is serious, ranging from 2 to 4 percent on many attitudes, and very often larger than the standard error in surveys of ordinary size
Disintegrated disciplines and the future of sociology
Ending Revolutions and Building New Governments
Revolutions may be defined as periods in which the rate of change of power positions of factions, social groups, or armed bodies changes rapidly and unpredictably. Revolutions then come to an end to the degree that political uncertainty is reduced by building enough bargains into a political structure that can maintain those bargains. The paper summarizes what we know about the structures that can produce such decreases in uncertainty: conservati…
Agricultural Enterprise and Rural Class Relations
Property is far more important in rural stratification than in urban stratification, where occupational position predominates. There is less similarity of the property systems in commercialized agriculture than there is in urban occupational structure. In agricultural production for markets, the main types of property systems are commercialized manorial systems, plantation systems, and ranching systems. Each of these produces a distinctive patter…
Roads from Past to Future
Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction: Ways of Knowing Chapter 3 Future Social Science Chapter 4 Invisible Elbow Part 5 Contention and Social Change Chapter 6 The Modernization of Political Conflict in France Chapter 7 Does Modernization Breed Revolution?: Cities, Bourgeois, and Revolution in France Part 8 Power and Inequality Chapter 9 War Making and State Making as Organized Crime Chapter 10 Democracy is a Lake Chapter 11 Parlimentarization of…
The Functional Theory of Social Insurance
Freedom and Oppression of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
The Origins of Sociology as a Discipline
My general argument in this presentation will be that the origin of sociology as a discipline was a bad thing, in that it led us systematically away from the study of humans acting in society. Obviously this means that I think the subject matter of sociology is important and interesting. I will argue that the internal prestige system of sociology as a discipline, however, diverts us from studying the people involved in a social system, and leads …
Weak Structural Data
Interdependence and Inequality: A Specification of the Davis-Moore Theory
Reason and Rationality
based, such as bachelor's degree should involve passing 120 semester hours of courses, or profits are maximized when marginal costs are equated with marginal revenue, or iterated proportional fitting of a cross tabulation approaches the maximum likelihood estimates of the cell frequencies under loglinear models with any of several sampling schemes, or contracts in which one of the parties receives no 'consideration,' no benefit from the transacti…
Love and irrationality: It's got to be rational to love you because it makes me so happy
Simmel systematized: James S. Coleman and the social forms of purposive action in hisFoundations of Social Theory
The Growth of the World System The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600-1750. Immanuel Wallerstein
History in Geographic Perspective: The Other France
A Heuristic Procedure for Interpreting Factor Analyses
Orne, M. T. 1962 On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications. American Psychologist 17: 776-783. Richardson, S. A., B. S. Dohrenwend, and D. Klein 1965 Interviewing: Its Forms and Functions. New York: Basic Books. Rosenthal, R. 1966 Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research. New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts. Rosenthal, R. and K. L. Fode 1963 Three experimen…
Demography of Organizations
By studying data on the Baltimore city and Baltimore county (suburban) school systems, we try to specify conditions under which an organization is able to control the social composition of the net flow of the population across its boundaries. The Baltimore city system has had a demographic goal of desegregated schools for some ten years. This paper tries to specify some of the reasons that this goal has not been achievable. We will argue that the…
The Sociology of Organization and the Theory of the Firm
Agricultural Enterprise and Rural Class Relations
Property is far more important in rural stratification than in urban stratification, where occupational position predominates. There is less similarity of the property systems in commercialized agriculture than there is in urban occupational structure. In agricultural production for markets, the main types of property systems are commercialized manorial systems, plantation systems, and ranching systems. Each of these produces a distinctive patter…
Agrarian Unrest in Southeast Asia. Erich H. Jacoby
The First Two Years: Problems of Small Firm Growth and Survival. Kurt B. Mayer , Sidney Goldstein
Some Empirical Consequences of the Davis-Moore Theory of Stratification
Ouvriers d'origine agricole ("Workers of Agricultural Origin"). Alain Touraine , Orietta Ragazzi
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century. F. M. L. Thompson
Entrepreneurship in Argentine Culture: Torcuato di Tella and S.I.A.M. Thomas C. Cochran , Ruben E. Reina , Sue Nuttal
Rural Land Tenure in the United States: A Socio-Economic Approach to Problems, Programs, and Trends. Alvin L. Bertrand , Floyd L. Corty
Institutions of Privacy in the Determination of Police Administrative Practice
Legal institutions in modern societies define private and public places and define appropriate police activity differently for crimes occurring in private and public places. Since urban and rural areas differ in the distribution of private and public places, with denser public places in cities, police practice in urban and rural areas is different. And crimes of different types are systematically distributed; some, like murder, are almost entirel…
Man, Time, and Society. Wilbert E. Moore
Notes on Technology and the Moral Order. Alvin W. Gouldner , Richard A. Peterson
The Mexican Mesta: The Administration of Ranching in Colonial Mexico
Behavior In Public Places.Erving Goffman
Organization-creating organizations
Jamaican Leaders: Political Attitudes in a New Nation
The Politics of Modernization
Farmers, Workers and Machines: Technological and Social Change in Farm Industries of Arizona
Sociological Theories in Progress, Vol. I. Joseph Berger , Morris Zelditch, Jr. , Bo Anderson
The Theory and Design of Economic Development.Irma Adelman , Erik Thorbecke
A Village Economy: Land and People of Huecorio, by Michael Belshaw
Colombia: Social Structure and the Process of Development. T. Lynn Smith
Segregation and Educational Disadvantage: Estimates of the Influence of Different Segregating Factors
A regression equation relating Negroes' verbal achievement to the proportion Negro in their schools, taken from the Coleman report, is applied to data on school composition in Baltimore and Baltimore suburbs. This allows estimation of the educational disadvantage due to different segregating influences. For Baltimore Negroes as a group, the most important local segregating influences are the city-suburban boundary and the privatepublic school sys…
Demography of Organizations
By studying data on the Baltimore city and Baltimore county (suburban) school systems, we try to specify conditions under which an organization is able to control the social composition of the net flow of the population across its boundaries. The Baltimore city system has had a demographic goal of desegregated schools for some ten years. This paper tries to specify some of the reasons that this goal has not been achievable. We will argue that the…
Theory and Methods of Social Research.Johan Galtung
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