Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrat

A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (Ge

We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. But is it possi

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Barber constructs a provisional, generalized, substantive theory of the social system, which he uses as the starting point and focus of his specialized research