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  1. Review of Thomas S. Kuhn The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. [REVIEW]David Zaret - 1981 - Philosophical Review 90 (1):146.
    Review of T. S. Kuhn's The Essential Tension.
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  • Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences.Andrew Delano Abbott - 2004 - W W Norton & Company.
    Abbott helps social science students discover what questions to ask. This exciting book is not about habits and the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by coming up with new ideas and combining them more effectively with old ones. Abbott organizes his book around general methodological moves, and uses examples from throughout the social sciences to show how these moves can open new lines of thinking. (...)
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  • Foundations of Social Theory.James Samuel Coleman - 1990 - Belknap Press.
    Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and change in social systems. This book provides for the first time a sound theoretical foundation for linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior and then to society as a whole. The power of the theory is especially apparent when Coleman analyzes corporate actors, (...)
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  • Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought.George Lakoff (ed.) - 1999 - Basic Books.
    Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
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  • Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.Robert Pollin - 2007 - Science and Society 71 (1):128-130.
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  • The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power.Pierre Bourdieu - 1998 - Stanford University Press.
    Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed.
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  • Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action.Pierre Bourdieu - 1998 - Stanford University Press.
    This work by Pierre Bourdieu develops the anthropological theory which has formed the basis of his scientific research. It discusses the problems posed by "structuralist" philosophers in order to solve or dissolve them.
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  • In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology.Pierre Bourdieu - 1990 - Stanford University Press.
    The present volume consists of diverse individual texts, produced between 1980 and 1986, which take two forms: interviews in which Bourdieu confronts a series of probing and intelligent interviewers, and conference papers that clarify and extend specific areas of his research. Now that Bourdieu's work has achieved wide diffusion and celebrity, this is an appropriate time for this volume, a pause for retrospection and resynthesis, for corrections of misreadings and extension of previous insights, and for projection of the next stages (...)
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  • How to model an institution.John W. Mohr & Harrison C. White - 2008 - Theory and Society 37 (5):485-512.
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  • Punctuated Equilibrium's Threefold History.Stephen Jay Gould - unknown
    h e "Urban Legend" of Punctuated Equilibrium's Threefold History: The opponents of punctuated equilibrium have constructed a fictional history of the theory, primarily (I suppose) as a largely unconscious expression of their hope for its minor importance […] This supposed threefold history of punctuated equilibrium also ranks about as close to pure fiction as any recent commentary by scientists has ever generated. In stage one, the story goes, we were properly modest, obedient to the theoretical hegemony of the Modern Synthesis, (...)
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  • (4 other versions)The Theory of Moral Sentiments.Adam Smith - 1759 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe, Richard McCarty, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya.
    The foundation for a system of morals, this 1749 work is a landmark of moral and political thought. Its highly original theories of conscience, moral judgment, and virtue offer a reconstruction of the Enlightenment concept of social science, embracing both political economy and theories of law and government.
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  • Transcending general linear reality.Andrew Abbott - 1988 - Sociological Theory 6 (2):169-186.
    This paper argues that the dominance of linear models has led many sociologists to construe the social world in terms of a "general linear reality." This reality assumes (1) that the social world consists of fixed entities with variable attributes, (2) that cause cannot flow from "small" to "large" attributes/events, (3) that causal attributes have only one causal pattern at once, (4) that the sequence of events does not influence their outcome, (5) that the "careers" of entities are largely independent, (...)
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  • (1 other version)Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.Stephen Jay Gould - 1991 - Journal of the History of Biology 24 (1):163-165.
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  • Literacy in Traditional SocietiesLiteracy and Development in the West.Victor E. Neuburg, Jack Goody & C. M. Cipolla - 1969 - British Journal of Educational Studies 17 (3):322.
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  • Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong?: Diagnosis and Remedies.Nicos Mouzelis - 2003 - Routledge.
    Written with precision and clarity, this is a compelling analysis of the central problems of sociological theory today and of the means to resolve them. Argues that we should build on ideas from the 50s and 60s, and not dismiss them.
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  • The Two Marxisms: Contradictions and Anomalies in the Development of Theory.Alvin W. Gouldner - 1981 - Science and Society 45 (3):372-375.
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  • (1 other version)Wonderful Life; The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.Stephen Jay Gould - 1992 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 23 (2):359-360.
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  • Politics and Paradigms, Changing Theories of Change in Social Science.Andrew C. Janos - 1990 - Noûs 24 (5):811-813.
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  • Cultures and Societies in a changing world.Wendy Griswold & Soraj Hongladarom - 1999 - AI and Society 13 (4):446-449.
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  • In the wake of chaos: Unpredictable order in dynamical systems.Stephen H. Kellert & Lawrence Sklar - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (1):181.
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  • Course in General Linguistics.Ferdinand De Saussure, Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Albert Riedlinger & Roy Harris - 1987 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 49 (1):125-127.
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  • Reconciling Archer and Bourdieu in an Emergentist Theory of Action.Dave Elder-Vass - 2007 - Sociological Theory 25 (4):325 - 346.
    Margaret Archer and Pierre Bourdieu have advanced what seem at first sight to be incompatible theories of human agency. While Archer places heavy stress on conscious reflexive deliberation and the consequent choices of identity and projects that individuals make, Bourdieu's concept of habitus places equally heavy stress on the role of social conditioning in determining our behavior, and downplays the contribution of conscious deliberation. Despite this, I argue that these two approaches, with some modification, can be reconciled in a single (...)
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