Title: Human nature and collective behavior; papers in honor of Herbert Blumer.
Authors: Blumer, Herbert, 1900-1987; Shibutani, Tamotsu, 1920-; Shibutani, Tamotsu, 1920-
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1970
Subjects: Blumer, Herbert,; Psychology, Social; Social Behavior; Sociology
Contents: The Chicago and Iowa schools of symbolic interactionism, by B.N. Meltzer and J.W. Petras.--Sociology: natural science or intellectual commitment? By H.W. Dunham.--Interactionist imagery and analytic interruptus, by J. Lofland.--Discovering new theory from previous theory, by A. Strauss.--Evaluating predictions in social science: an example frm demography, by N. Keyfitz.--Style rebellion and identity crisis, by O.E. Klapp.--A theory of hysterical contagion, by A.C. Kerckhoff.--Collective behavior theory and the escalated riots of the Sixties, by K. Lang and G.E. Lang.--Emergent accommodation groups: beyond current collective behavior typologies, by E.L. Quarantelli.--Toward corporate action: a reconstruction of elementary collective processes, by G.E. Swanson.--Determinants of social movement strategies, by R.H. Turner.--Group cohesion and the Hutterian colony, by S.C. Lee.--Herbert Blumer's contributions to race relations, by L.M. Killian.