James S. Coleman
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James S. Coleman
(Consensus and controversy, . Falmer sociology series ; [4])
Falmer Press, 1996
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- : paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-425) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
James S. Coleman was one of a distinguished generation of sociology students who passed through the Columbia Sociology Department in the 1940s and `50s. This book critically debates his work and his contribution to society and the social sciences more generally. It consists of 18 major papers by 20 authors from six countries on a range of themes. The volume is framed by an extended editorial introduction reflecting on the five- year exchange of correspondence between James Coleman and the editor, together with two of Coleman's own works.
Table of Contents
- Reflections on schools and adolescents, James S. Coleman
- youth and adolesence - a historical and cultural perspective, Torsten Husen
- Coleman's contribution to understanding youth and adolescence, Denise B. Kandel
- private schooling in post-communist Poland, Barbara Heyns
- early schooling and educational inequality - socioeconomic disparities in children's learning, Karl L. Alexander and Doris R. Entwistle
- Coleman's contributions to education - theory, research styles and empirical research, James J. Heckman and Derek Neal
- the sociological contribution to social policy research, Martin Bulmer
- the political context of social policy research, Sally B. Kilgore
- games with simulated environments, Sarane Spence Boocock
- methodological individualism and collective behaviour, Benjamin Zablocki
- mobility measurement revisited, David J. Bartholomew
- self-employment and entrepreneurship - a study of entry and exit, Peter Abell
- educational opportunities and school effects, Aage B. Sorensen
- the violation of normative rules and the issue of rationality in individual judgements, Michael Imbar
- foundational problems in theoretical sociology, Thomas J. Fararo
- rational schoice as grand theory - James Coleman's normative contribution to social theory, Adrian Favell
- constitutionalism versus relationalism - two versions of rational choice sociology, Siegwart Lindenberg
- analyzing the economy - on the contribution of James S. Coleman, Richard Swedberg
- can rational action theory unify future social science?, Randall Collins
- a vision for sociology, James S. Coleman.
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