Andrew P Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 4590569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew P Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew P |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT A P |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9556-8341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chapter 1. The Historicality of Individuals
Because processual social thought takes change to be universality, even the historical continuity of individuals requires theorizing. This continuity arises because of biological, memory-based, and recorded continuity. Not all of it is “cultural;” much is structural, or even biological. These continuities “encode” the immediate past into the present, and so provide stepwise continuity across time. An individual “is” a lineage of such continuities…
Chapter 5. The Problem of Excess
This article argues for a new branch of theory based not on presumptions of scarcity—which are the foundational presumptions of most existing social theory—but on those of excess. The chapter first discusses the emergence of scarcity’s dominance in social theory. It then considers and rejects the idea that excess of one thing is simply scarcity of another. It discusses the mechanisms by which excess creates problems, noting three such mechanisms …
Chapter 9. Professionalism Empirical and Moral
The chapter first demonstrates that sociological students of professions typically disclaim any normative intentions, but in fact live professionalism on a daily basis – a contradiction I call knowledge alienation. It then considers the Weberian concept of value-free social science, finding Weber’s analysis problematic Durkheimian analysis of morals, finding that Durkheim’s claim to have resolved the normative/empirical divide is specious. Parson…
Chapter 6. The Idea of Outcome
The chapter considers how we evaluate the results of periods of time for social actors, contrasting the economic focus on evaluation from the beginning through forward-thinking and discounting with the sociological focus on a single-value at the end. Many different forms of outcome are discussed. In terms of “breadth” of concept there are process outcome, trend outcome, and point outcome. In terms of temporality, there are “tensed” and “untensed”…
Chapter 4. Lyrical Sociology
Although ecology captures the causal structure of the present, it does not capture the feel of temporality itself. Lyric is the sense of temporal passage in the present. Beginning with an analysis of temporal passage in the work of Paul Lazarsfeld, this chapter uses literary and philosophical theories to discuss the role of the present in the social process and the analysis of that present by “lyrical sociology,” sociology that is deliberately no…
Chapter 3. Linked Ecologies
Previous work has shown the fruitfulness of the ecology concept as a general representation for capturing relations between actors in a social space. However, that work tended to assume external criteria (e.g., of fitness or success) that are exogenous to the ecology itself. Here, after giving a general theorization of the ecology concept, I argue that different ecologies are linked together such that each provides such external criteria for itse…
Chapter 8. Inequality as Process
The chapter first shows that out inequality concept is inherently normative. The term is in fact used to mean “injustice.” The normative implications of three measurement problems affecting inequality are then discussed: linearity, additivity, and generality. More general measurement problems are the improbability of inequality and metrizability; it may be that justice is specifically conceptualized as unmeasurable. The chapter then analyzes the …
Chapter 2. Human Nature in Processual Thinking
Chapter 7. Social Order and Process
The chapter gives an analysis of possible conceptions of social order, focusing on how they are embedded in time and conceive of temporality. It begins with the simple concepts of order that treat order simply as the absence of disorder, (e.g., the contractarians). It moves from unprocessual concepts like equilibrium, with its many variations, to empirical concepts of process like habituation, socialization, and tradition, and then to normative c…
Roger V. Gould, 1966-2002
Identity and Control
The Welfare State as Transnational Event
History and Sociology
Technical Workers in an Advanced Society
Preface 1. Technical workers in the advanced societies 2. The companies: PAMPCO and TELECO 3. Pierre in his own words 4. The social meaning of technical knowledge 5. The organisation and experience of technical work 6. Autonomy and authority on the job 7. Labour markets and career experiences 8. Trade unions and professional associations 9. Social participation, politics and class 10. Conclusions: technology, nations and career structures Appendi…
A Labor Market Perspective on the Mobility of College Football Coaches
A Labor Market Perspective on the Mobility of College Football Coaches
History and Sociology
Technical Workers in an Advanced Society
Preface 1. Technical workers in the advanced societies 2. The companies: PAMPCO and TELECO 3. Pierre in his own words 4. The social meaning of technical knowledge 5. The organisation and experience of technical work 6. Autonomy and authority on the job 7. Labour markets and career experiences 8. Trade unions and professional associations 9. Social participation, politics and class 10. Conclusions: technology, nations and career structures Appendi…
The Welfare State as Transnational Event
Identity and Control
Roger V. Gould, 1966-2002
Chapter 1. The Historicality of Individuals
Because processual social thought takes change to be universality, even the historical continuity of individuals requires theorizing. This continuity arises because of biological, memory-based, and recorded continuity. Not all of it is “cultural;” much is structural, or even biological. These continuities “encode” the immediate past into the present, and so provide stepwise continuity across time. An individual “is” a lineage of such continuities…
Chapter 5. The Problem of Excess
This article argues for a new branch of theory based not on presumptions of scarcity—which are the foundational presumptions of most existing social theory—but on those of excess. The chapter first discusses the emergence of scarcity’s dominance in social theory. It then considers and rejects the idea that excess of one thing is simply scarcity of another. It discusses the mechanisms by which excess creates problems, noting three such mechanisms …
Chapter 9. Professionalism Empirical and Moral
The chapter first demonstrates that sociological students of professions typically disclaim any normative intentions, but in fact live professionalism on a daily basis – a contradiction I call knowledge alienation. It then considers the Weberian concept of value-free social science, finding Weber’s analysis problematic Durkheimian analysis of morals, finding that Durkheim’s claim to have resolved the normative/empirical divide is specious. Parson…
Chapter 6. The Idea of Outcome
The chapter considers how we evaluate the results of periods of time for social actors, contrasting the economic focus on evaluation from the beginning through forward-thinking and discounting with the sociological focus on a single-value at the end. Many different forms of outcome are discussed. In terms of “breadth” of concept there are process outcome, trend outcome, and point outcome. In terms of temporality, there are “tensed” and “untensed”…
Chapter 4. Lyrical Sociology
Although ecology captures the causal structure of the present, it does not capture the feel of temporality itself. Lyric is the sense of temporal passage in the present. Beginning with an analysis of temporal passage in the work of Paul Lazarsfeld, this chapter uses literary and philosophical theories to discuss the role of the present in the social process and the analysis of that present by “lyrical sociology,” sociology that is deliberately no…
Chapter 3. Linked Ecologies
Previous work has shown the fruitfulness of the ecology concept as a general representation for capturing relations between actors in a social space. However, that work tended to assume external criteria (e.g., of fitness or success) that are exogenous to the ecology itself. Here, after giving a general theorization of the ecology concept, I argue that different ecologies are linked together such that each provides such external criteria for itse…
Chapter 8. Inequality as Process
The chapter first shows that out inequality concept is inherently normative. The term is in fact used to mean “injustice.” The normative implications of three measurement problems affecting inequality are then discussed: linearity, additivity, and generality. More general measurement problems are the improbability of inequality and metrizability; it may be that justice is specifically conceptualized as unmeasurable. The chapter then analyzes the …
Chapter 2. Human Nature in Processual Thinking
Chapter 7. Social Order and Process
The chapter gives an analysis of possible conceptions of social order, focusing on how they are embedded in time and conceive of temporality. It begins with the simple concepts of order that treat order simply as the absence of disorder, (e.g., the contractarians). It moves from unprocessual concepts like equilibrium, with its many variations, to empirical concepts of process like habituation, socialization, and tradition, and then to normative c…
Sociology (12 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Normative (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)