Overview
In depth coverage of meso-dynamic sociological theory
Part of a 3 volume set that includes macro, micro, and meso-level dynamics
Detailed theoretical basis with concrete applications
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The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cultures are driven by macro- and micro-level forces pushing on individual and collective actors as they build corporate units and develop parameters defining membership in particular social categories.
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Keywords
- Cultural beliefs
- Divisions of Labor
- Dynamics of all corporate units
- Dynamics of the Social Universe
- Emotional arousal
- Levels of social reality
- Macro- and micro-level sociocultural environments
- Micro reality
- Norms and values
- Resource mobilization
- Social movement organizations
- Status Dynamics and beliefs
- inter-societal systems
- interpersonal demography
- sociocultural formations
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jonathan H.Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, and since the 1969-1970 academic year,he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more subtantive specialities,including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institututions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 3
Book Subtitle: Mesodynamics
Authors: Jonathan H. Turner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6221-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6220-1Published: 24 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0047-3Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6221-8Published: 05 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 434
Topics: Sociology, general