Alvin W Gouldner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin W Gouldner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin W |
| FAMILY NAME | Gouldner |
| SIGNATURE | GOULDNER A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
El sociólogo como partisano: La Sociología Y El Estado De Bienestar
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
In all countries that have in the twentieth century become part of the emerging world socioeconomic order, a New Class composed of intellectuals and technical intelligentsia-not the same-enters into contention with the groups already in control of the society's economy, whether these are businessmen or party leaders. A new contest of classes and a new class system is slowly arising in the third world of developing nations, in the second world of …
Sociology and the Everyday Life
This chapter suggests the concept of an Everyday Life (EDL) is not only a critique of a technical concept such as "culture," but also has deeper roots in the critique of certain traditional features of ordinary, everyday, Western culture. The EDL makes references to certain patterns or routines of social existence as a constructed order, as the outcome and product of human work. From a historical standpoint, one of the first concerns EDL is to be…
La norma de reciprocidad: Un Argumento Preliminar
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Socialism in the Eighteenth Century
The Doctrine of Saint-Simon: The Foundation of Positivism
Definition of Socialism
Sismondi
The Life and Work of Saint-Simon
Pourquoi donner quelque chose contre rien
Pourquoi la norme de réciprocité ne suffit-elle pas à maintenir le monde social ? Pourquoi doit-il également exister une norme de bienfaisance qui permet de recevoir quelque chose contre rien ? Cet article démontre que la stabilité des systèmes sociaux suppose autre chose que le simple respect des droits d'autrui et l'attribution à chacun de ce qui lui est dû. Tout code moral doit au contraire développer des orientations normatives telles que l'«…
Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of the Intellectuals
Gouldner's Struggle with the Ghost of Marx
The Two Marxisms: Contradictions and Anomalies in the Development of Theory
Gouldner at His Best
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
Alvin Ward Gouldner: July 29, 1920-December 15, 1980
Doubts about the uselessness of men and the meaning of the civilizing process
The Two Marxisms
The contemporary world projects a perplexing picture of political, social and economic upheaval. In these challenging times the conventional wisdoms of orthodox social thought whether it be sociology, economics or cultural studies become inadequate. This series focuses on this intellectual crisis, selecting authors whose work seeks to transcend the limitations of conventional discourse. Its tone is scholarly rather than polemical, in the belief t…
The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins of Grammar and Future of Ideology
Introductory notes
Towards an agenda for social theory in the last quarter of the twentieth century: An editorial
The New Class project, II: A frame of reference, theses, conjectures, arguments, and an historical perspective on the role of intellectuals and intelligentsia in the international class contest of the…
The New Class project, I
The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology
The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology
The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement
The manner in which the concept of reciprocity is implicated in functional theory is explored, enabling a reanalysis of the concepts of survival and exploitation. The need to distinguish between the concepts of complementarity and reciprocity is stressed. Distinctions are also drawn between (1) reciprocity as a pattern of mutually contingent exchange of gratifications, (2) the existential or folk belief in reciprocity, and (3) the generalized mor…
The coming crisis of western sociology
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Modern Factory Administration
Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology
This is an account of a myth created by and about a magnificent minotaur named Max-Max Weber, to be exact; his myth was that social science should and could be value-free. The lair of this minotaur, although reached only by a labrynthian logic and visited only by a few who never return, is still regarded by many sociologists as a holy place. In particular, as sociologists grow older they seem impelled to make a pilgrimage to it and to pay their r…
The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology
For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today
Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy
The conduct of a polemic focusses attention on the differences between two points of view to the neglect of their continuity and convergences. No modern polemic better exemplifies this than the controversy between the proponents of capitalism and of socialism. Each tends to define itself as the antithesis of the other; even the uncommitted bystander, rare though he be, is likely to think of the two as if they were utterly alien systems.There have…
Explorations in Applied Social Science
Not so long ago the words engineer were a term of opprobrium. They carried with them the suspicion that such a social scientist had somehow betrayed his vow of dispassionate objectivity and had sold his scientific heritage for a tasteless mess of popularity. This fastidious judgment was congenial to a stable society confident in the capacity of its established routines to cope with familiar tensions. It made sense also in a culture which had an u…
Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of the Intellectuals
Microcosm: Structural, Psychological and Religious Evolution in Groups
Enter Plato. Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory
Theoretical Requirements of the Applied Social Sciences
The author has strong preliminary indications from his research into groups of a basic ethical primacy obscured by a more striking emotionalism.'3 The content of this ethic is largely what Weber calls inner-worldly asceticism; it is oriented to production rather than to consumption, to achievement for its own sake, to leading consistent, disciplined lives. In short, in many new Sectarian movements the underlying ethical themes are already framed …
Stalinism: A Study of Internal Colonialism
The Stalinist past still shapes Soviet society today, even if no longer defining it. Nowhere is this more evident than in the crises of procurement with which Soviet agriculture recurrently beset the Soviet economy. From the October Revolution to détente, the peasantry have been a destiny for the Soviet State. This, however, need not have been the case: that “destiny” was a man-made one. If the “thaw” of 1956 was short-lived, this is not surprisi…
Romanticism and Classicism: Deep Structures in Social Science
The "modern" only begins to manifest itself when, in answer to the question, What is distinctively human?, Romanticism replies not by referring to man's eternal capacity for reason and universal rationality, but, 'instead, to his creative originality, to his individuated capacity to feel and to dream uniquely. The modern begins to emerge when man is seen, not merely as a creature that can discover the world, but also as one who can create new mea…
Studies in Leadership: Leadership and Democratic Action
The New Class project, I
The metaphoricality of Marxism and the context-freeing grammar of socialism
The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Outlook and Needs
The New Class project, II: A frame of reference, theses, conjectures, arguments, and an historical perspective on the role of intellectuals and intelligentsia in the international class contest of the…
Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intellectuals
The following remarks attempt to explore the role of the intellectuals in contemporary revolutionary transformations, and to apprehend their character and meaning. As a whole, the project has two versions of the argument, a weak and a strong one. The minimum project seeks to specify the historical mechanisms that contribute to the radicalization of Western intellectuals and induce them to play a role in the revolutions of the twentieth century. G…
The Dark Side of the Dialectic: Toward a New Objectivity
Attitudes of 'Progressive' Trade-Union Leaders
The roles of husband and father subject the "progressive" trade-union leader to conflicting demands. This problem may be resolved either by the redefining of his roles as leader or husband-father or the relinquishing of them. Such conflicts, however, appear to operate within limits set by the whole social structure. During the war the improvement in the labor market increased the prestige of the major social norms, particularly the goal of indivi…
For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today
Modern Sociology. An Introduction to the Study of Human Interaction
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
Survey of Social Science
Basic personality structure and the subgroup
Attitudes of 'Progressive' Trade-Union Leaders
The roles of husband and father subject the "progressive" trade-union leader to conflicting demands. This problem may be resolved either by the redefining of his roles as leader or husband-father or the relinquishing of them. Such conflicts, however, appear to operate within limits set by the whole social structure. During the war the improvement in the labor market increased the prestige of the major social norms, particularly the goal of indivi…
Industrial Sociology: Status and Prospects: Discussion
Roads to Agreement: Successful Methods in the Science of Human Relations
Studies in Leadership: Leadership and Democratic Action
Studies in Leadership
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Modern Factory Administration
The Mystique of Modern Monarchy: With Special Reference to the British Commonwealth
The Problem of Loyalty in Groups under Tension
Journal Article The Problem of Loyalty in Groups Under Tension Get access Alvin W. Gouldner Alvin W. Gouldner 1University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1 October 1954, Pages 82–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/798820 Published: 09 August 2014
Industrial Conflict . Arthur Kornhauser, Robert Dubin, Arthur M. Ross
The Structure of Society. Marion J. Levy, Jr
Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy
The conduct of a polemic focusses attention on the differences between two points of view to the neglect of their continuity and convergences. No modern polemic better exemplifies this than the controversy between the proponents of capitalism and of socialism. Each tends to define itself as the antithesis of the other; even the uncommitted bystander, rare though he be, is likely to think of the two as if they were utterly alien systems.There have…
Wildcat Strike
Industrial Conflict Arthur Kornhauser Robert Dubin Arthur M. Ross
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Industrial Conflict. Edited by Arthur Kornhauser. Robert Dubin, and Arthur M. Ross. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954 xi, 551 pp. $6.00. Alvin W. Gouldner Alvin W. Gouldner University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1 July 1955, Page 50, https://doi.org/10.2307/798743 Published: 09 August 2014
Behavior in a Selling Group: A Case Study of Interpersonal Relations in a Department Store
Wildcat Strike
Explorations in Applied Social Science
Not so long ago the words engineer were a term of opprobrium. They carried with them the suspicion that such a social scientist had somehow betrayed his vow of dispassionate objectivity and had sold his scientific heritage for a tasteless mess of popularity. This fastidious judgment was congenial to a stable society confident in the capacity of its established routines to cope with familiar tensions. It made sense also in a culture which had an u…
Theoretical Requirements of the Applied Social Sciences
The author has strong preliminary indications from his research into groups of a basic ethical primacy obscured by a more striking emotionalism.'3 The content of this ethic is largely what Weber calls inner-worldly asceticism; it is oriented to production rather than to consumption, to achievement for its own sake, to leading consistent, disciplined lives. In short, in many new Sectarian movements the underlying ethical themes are already framed …
Socialism and Saint-Simon (Le Socialisme)
The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement
The manner in which the concept of reciprocity is implicated in functional theory is explored, enabling a reanalysis of the concepts of survival and exploitation. The need to distinguish between the concepts of complementarity and reciprocity is stressed. Distinctions are also drawn between (1) reciprocity as a pattern of mutually contingent exchange of gratifications, (2) the existential or folk belief in reciprocity, and (3) the generalized mor…
Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology
This is an account of a myth created by and about a magnificent minotaur named Max-Max Weber, to be exact; his myth was that social science should and could be value-free. The lair of this minotaur, although reached only by a labrynthian logic and visited only by a few who never return, is still regarded by many sociologists as a holy place. In particular, as sociologists grow older they seem impelled to make a pilgrimage to it and to pay their r…
Notes on Technology and the Moral Order
Notes on Technology and the Moral Order
Taking over
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