ジェームズ・コールマン

ジェームズ・S・コールマンは、アメリカ合衆国の社会学者。インディアナ州ベッドフォード生まれ。

教育社会学、公共政策などを研究し、ソーシャル・キャピタルという語を初めて用いた人物の一人。彼の『社会理論の基礎』//Foundations of Social Theory// は20世紀終わりの最も重要な社会学的業績である。経済学者のゲーリー・ベッカーとの親交で知られ、1980年代前半に共同でシカゴ大学内に学際的な合理的選択セミナーを開設した。

スタンフォード大学、ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学、シカゴ大学教授などを歴任。シカゴ大NORCNational Opinion Research Centerを指揮。1991年アメリカ社会学会会長。

米国の教育問題を扱ったコールマン・リポートで有名。晩年には数理社会学や合理的選択理論、ソーシャル・キャピタルの研究で有名となった。 シカゴで没した。

1. 著書
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//Community conflict//, Free Press, 1957.
//The adolescent society: the social life of the teenager and its impact on education//, Free Press of Glencoe, 1961.
//Introduction to mathematical sociology//, Free Press of Glencoe, 1964.
//Adolescents and the schools//, Basic Books, 1965.
//Resources for social change: race in the United States//, Wiley-Interscience, 1971.
//Policy research in the social sciences//, General Learning Press, 1972.
//The mathematics of collective action//, Aldine Pub. Co, 1973.
//Power and the structure of society//, Norton, 1974.
//Longitudinal data analysis//, Basic Books, 1981.
//The asymmetric society//, Syracuse University Press, 1982.
//Individual interests and collective action: selected essays//, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
//Equality and achievement in education//, Westview Press, 1990.
//Foundations of social theory//, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.『社会理論の基礎』、上下巻、久慈利武監訳、青木書店, 2004

1.1. 共著
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//Union democracy: the internal politics of the International Typographical Union//, with Seymour Martin Lipset and Martin A. Trow, Free Press, 1956.
//Medical innovation: a diffusion study//, with Elihu Katz and Herbert Menzel, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966『販売戦略と意思決定』、小口一元・宮本史郎訳、ラテイス, 1970
//Macrosociology: research and theory//, with Amitai Etzioni and John Porter, Allyn and Bacon, 1970.
//Information systems and performance measures in schools//, with Nancy L. Karweit, Educational Technology Publications, 1972.
//Equality of educational opportunity//, Arno Press, 1979.
//High school achievement: public, Catholic, and private schools compared//, with Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore, Basic Books, 1982.
//Becoming adult in a changing society//, with Torsten Husé, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1985.
//Public and private high schools: the impact of communities//, with Thomas Hoffer, Basic Books, 1987.
//University development in the third world: the Rockefeller Foundation experience//, with David Court, Pergamon Press, 1993.
//Redesigning American education//, Westview Press, 1997.

1.2. 編著
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//Qualitative and quantitative social research: papers in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld//, co-edited with Robert K. Merton and Peter H. Rossi, Free Press, 1979.
//Social sciences and public policy in the developing world//, co-edited with Laurence D. Stifel and Ralph K. Davidson, Lexington Books, 1982.
//Approaches to social theory//, co-edited with Siegwart Lindenberg and Stefan Nowak, Russell Sage Foundation, 1986.
//Social theory for a changing society//, co-edited with Pierre Bourdieu, Westview Press, 1991.
//Rational choice theory: advocacy and critique//, co-edited with Thomas J. Fararo, Sage Publications, 1992.
//Parents, their children, and schools//, co-edited with Barbara Schneider, Westview Press, 1993.

2. 関連項目
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数理社会学
合理的選択理論

3. 外部リンク
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