1st Edition
Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change A Critical Analysis
By Herbert Blumer
Copyright 1990
196 Pages
by
Routledge
195 Pages
by
Routledge
195 Pages
by
Routledge
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Herbert Blumer wrote continuously and voluminously, and consequently left a vast array of unpublished work at the time of his death in 1987. This posthumously published volume testifies further to his perceptive analysis of large-scale social organizations and elegant application of symbolic interactionist principles. Blumer's focus on the processual nature of social life and on the significance... Read more
On the Breadth and Relevance of Blumer's Perspective: Introduction to his Analysis of Industrialization I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. AMBIGUITY OF THE CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION III. THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IV. INDUSTRIALIZATION AS AN AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE—PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS V. INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRADITIONAL ORDER VI. INDUSTRIALIZATION AND PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL TRANSITION VII. THE NEUTRAL ROLE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION VIII. IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEUTRAL ROLE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Biography
Herbert Blumer (1900-1987), University of Missouri, A.B., M.A. (1922); University of Chicago, Ph.D. (1928). University of Chicago Department of Sociology, 1928-1952; Chairperson, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1967 (Emeritus, 1967-86).
