Title: Essays in sociological explanation
Authors: Smelser, Neil J.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1968
Subjects: Sociology.; Social change.
Contents: Part I: Sociology as a Scientific Enterprise : 1. Sociology and the other social sciences -- 2. The optimum scope of sociology -- 3. The methodology of comparative analysis of economic activity -- 4. Sociology history: The Industrial Revolution and the British working-class family -- 5. Social and psychological dimensions of collective behavior -- Part II: The Sociological Explanation of Change -- 6. Toward a theory of modernization -- 7. Social structure, mobility, and economic development -- 8. Toward a general theory of social change.