1st Edition

Sociological Endeavor

Edited By Hans Zetterberg Copyright 1997
404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

In this, the twentieth volume in the Transaction series honoring distinguished social scientists of the twentieth century, the life and work of the eminent Swedish sociologist, Hans L. Zetterberg is featured. He has had a long and distinguished career in a number of fields including, sociology, publishing, private business and public policy. For many years he was head of the Swedish Institute for... Read more
I: Method; 1: On Symbols; 2: The Confirmation and Ordering of Sociological Propositions; 3: Vilfredo Pareto’s Theory of the Elites; 4: Max Weber; II: Theory; 5: The Vocabularies of Mundane and Institutional Sociology; 6: Compliant actions 1; 7: On Motivation; 8: The Historical Differentiation of the European Institutional Realms; 9: The Study of Values; III: Applications; 10: Scientific Acedia; 11: The Will to Work and the Invisible Contract; 12: Media, Ideology, and the Spiral of Silence; 13: The Secret Ranking; 14: The Swedish Public and Nuclear Energy: the Referendum 1980; 15: The Rational Humanitarians; 16: Seventeen Propositions about the Swedish Social State; IV: Epilogue and Bibliography; On the Theme “My Life as Sociologist”

Biography

Hans Zetterberg