Generating Images of Stratification: A Formal Theory / Edition 1

by Thomas J. Fararo, Kenji Kosaka

Overview

Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail:

-Self-contained presentation - In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods the book provides clear and simple accounts accompanied by examples.

- A theoretical research program - The emphasis is on theory development, involving a series of theoretical models constructed within a core framework of principles and methods.

- Deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality - We know from research that how people perceive the stratification system of a society depends upon their position in that system. So the problem is: What process generates this regularity and thereby explains empirical generalizations about the social structuration of images?

- Constructs generative theoretical models - The book is an extended presentation of "generative theory" in sociology, a formal method of producing effective theoretical explanations.

Generating Images of Stratification is of interest to mathematical sociologists and formal theorists in sociology; sociologists interested in social stratification; methodologists, both in sociology and in other fields; philosophers of social science; and theoretical scientists and mathematicians who are interested in applying their analytical tools to social science topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402015007
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	08/31/2003
Series:	Theory and Decision Library A: , #35
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Methodology of Formal Theorizing.- 2. Stratification and Consciousness.- 3. The Panoply of Structural Images.- 4. Self-Location in a Stratified System.- 5. Images of the Shape of a Stratified System.- 6. Theoretical Elaborations.- 7. Proliferation: New Directions of Research.- References.