1st Edition
Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)
By John Urry
Copyright 1973
258 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
258 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.
Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition.
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Part 1: Symbolic Interactionism and the Reference Group Concept 1. Of Symbolic Interactionism 2. Of Reference Groups 3. Of Normative References 4. Of Social Comparisons Part 2: Reference Groups in the Study of Dissent 5. Of a Theory of Dissent Part 3: The Sociology of Indonesian Dissent 6. Of Indonesian Dissent
Biography
John Urry
'This is a sensible and thoughtful book, full of interesting and acute observations. It is considerably more worth reading than most books about revolution.' - Cambridge Review
