Neil J Smelser
Biographic Data
| ID | 78784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil J Smelser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil J |
| FAMILY NAME | Smelser |
| SIGNATURE | SMELSER N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 160 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 155 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Public Higher Education in California
The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
Introduction: The Ideological Discourse of Cultural Discontent: Paradoxes, Realities, and Alternative Ways of Thinking
Sociology and the Other Social Sciences (1967)
Group Movements, Sociocultural Change, and Personality
This chapter discusses the relevant literature in the books and learned journals of sociology, social psychology, psychology, and psychoanalysis. It explores sometimes invoke personality factors to account for the linkage between social change processes and behavioral outcomes and analyses the employ them to account for behavior that influences social change processes. The chapter reviews research on what might be regarded as the simplest kind of…
Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences
This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth century. This is the most general statement of the general theory of action as it was developed by its principle exponent, Talcott Parsons, and his close collaborators who formed the core of the fabled department of social relations at Harvard University. Toward a General Theory of is an extremely ambitious formulation o…
Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry
Collective Behavior, Sociology of
Sources of Unity and Disunity in Sociology
Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage
Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage: Biographical, Theoretical, and Intellectual Notes
Readers of this volume will easily discern the difficulties of fruitful articulation between psychoanalysis and sociology on all dimensions— theoretical synthesis, collaborative research, practical applications, and no doubt friendships and visiting patterns among their respective practitioners. As a person whose primary identification has been that of a sociologist, but also as one who became a psychoanalyst and remained intellectually active in…
Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections
Introduction Part I Early Searching 1. The Optimum Scope of Sociology (1969) 2. Sociology and the Other Social Sciences (1967) 3. Some Personal Thoughts on the Pursuit of Sociological Problems (1969) Part II Later Explorations 4. Biography, the Structure of Explanation, and the Evaluation of Research in Sociology (1980) 5. External Influences on Sociology (1990) 6. Sociology's Next Decades: Centrifugality, Conflict, Accommodation (1990) 7. Sociol…
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology
Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences
Sociology’s Next Decades: Centrifugality, Conflict, Accommodation
In this essay, the author proceeds in three steps: first, by identifying some broad societal trends affecting sociology; second, by formulating important directions of change of the discipline suggested by these trends and described by the notion of centrifugality; third, by locating certain lines of conflict within the discipline and bases for accommodation and integration. His essay applies mainly to the American scene with observations applica…
Economy and Society (translated by Mariya Dobryakova)
The research perspective of economy and society, renamed later into old economic sociology, is associated with several icons of sociology, but fi rst and foremost, -with Talcott Parsons and Neil Smelser. In their book with the same title Economy and Society the authors made an attempt to analyze the nature of disciplinary boundaries between economics and sociology from the standpoint of system theory. They claimed economic theory to be a special …
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, reviewed, and adopted. Since then, the field of economic …
Handbook of Economic Sociology: Second Edition
Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University
These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism—in pa…
The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions
Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it, who are its proponents and how do they think, and how--and why--does it work? Neil Smelser begins by tackling the fundamental problem of defining what exactly …
Philip Rieff: The Mind of a Dualist
The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions (Science Essentials)
Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action
Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory
This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups
The Questionable Logic of "Mistakes" in the Dynamics of Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences
Neil J. Smelser The Questionable Logic of "Mistakes" in the Dynamics of Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences ON RECEIVING AN INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SPECIAL ISSUE on errors in science, I immediately responded to the editors that I did not wish to do so because it was a big mistake to think that the logic of "big mistakes" applies to the histoiy and dynamics of the behavioral and social sciences.* I gave them a few reasons why I though…
The handbook of economic sociology
"During recent years social scientists have come to reaffirm that understanding almost any facet of social life requires a simultaneous grasp of how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by culture. Sociology, and especially economic sociology, is well equipped to be of assistance in this endeavor. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg bring together leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists in The Handbook of Econom…
Theory of collective behavior.
"In all civilizations, men have evinced dramatic collective behavior--the craze, the riot, the revolution. In Theory of Collective Behavior, the author applies the insights of contemporary sociology in the first work to unify the subject of collective behavior under a single, coherent sociological theory. The treatment is new and controversial. It marks a radical departure from the European social-psychological tradition of Le Bon, Trotter, MacDo…
The Rational and the Ambivalent in the Social Sciences: 1997 Presidential Address
Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory
This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups
Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995
These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, ". some central problematics—those generic, recurrent, never resolved and never completely resolvable issues—tha…
Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry
The Rational Choice Perspective: A Theoretical Assessment
This essay attempts a theoretical assessment of the rational choice perspective, a central tenet in economics that has received wide application in recent decades in the other behavioral and social sciences. The analysis proceeds by several steps: (a) a specification of the historical contexts (economic, political, and ideological) of the rise and consolidation of the perspective in economics, (b) a description of the theoretical essentials of th…
Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action
On Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization in Sociology
In this article some links between comparative methods, interdisciplinary studies and the internationalization of sociological knowledge are explored. The most fruitful comparative approach, it is argued, is neither positivistic nor relativistic, but should involve systematic incorporation of contextual analysis in selecting indices and explanatory variables. It is demonstrated that in order to carry out such contextual analysis effectively, the …
Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society
Sociology
Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs
Social structure and mobility in economic development
The sociology of economic life.
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution. An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry, 1770-1840
A Comparative View of Exchange Systems
Personality and Social Systems
The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Outlook and Needs
Theory of Collective Behavior
Change and Controversy in Recent American Sociology
8-T1HE PERIOD since the end of World War II has clearly | witnessed basic changes in American sociology. The combina1 tion of rapid expansion of both uxiiversity posts and of available research funds facilitated more diverse large-scale efforts to upgrade the intellectual quality of sociological investigation than occurred in any other comparable period of time. 1 These efforts at innovation have led to considerable controversy about the future p…
Can Individualism Yield a Sociology
The Skills of the Economist
Sociological theory: Looking forward
Economic Sociology: Historical Threads and Analytic Issues
On Collaborating With Talcott Parsons: Some Intellectual and Personal Notes
Ethics in a Business Society. Marquis W. Childs, Douglass Cater
Economy and Society
Economy and Society
The Skills of the Economist
Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham. William G. McLoughlin, Jr
A Comparative View of Exchange Systems
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution. An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry, 1770-1840
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution 1770-1840
The Corporation in Modern Society
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution. An Application of Theory to the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1770-1840
Sociological Aspects of Economic Growth. Bert F. Hoselitz
Change and Controversy in Recent American Sociology
8-T1HE PERIOD since the end of World War II has clearly | witnessed basic changes in American sociology. The combina1 tion of rapid expansion of both uxiiversity posts and of available research funds facilitated more diverse large-scale efforts to upgrade the intellectual quality of sociological investigation than occurred in any other comparable period of time. 1 These efforts at innovation have led to considerable controversy about the future p…
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry, 1770-1840
Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing Areas
Sociology: The Progress of a Decade. A Collection of Articles
The sociology of economic life.
Theory of collective behavior.
"In all civilizations, men have evinced dramatic collective behavior--the craze, the riot, the revolution. In Theory of Collective Behavior, the author applies the insights of contemporary sociology in the first work to unify the subject of collective behavior under a single, coherent sociological theory. The treatment is new and controversial. It marks a radical departure from the European social-psychological tradition of Le Bon, Trotter, MacDo…
Main Currents in Modern Economics: Economic Thought Since 1870. Ben B. Seligman
Key Problems of Sociological Theory.John Rex
Personality and Social Systems
Theoretical Issues of Scope and Problems
(1964). Theoretical Issues of Scope and Problems. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 116-122
The Present Position of Social Psychology
Theory of Collective Behavior
Theory of Collective Behavior
Social structure and mobility in economic development
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