- Publisher:
- Anthem Press
- Online publication date:
- January 2023
- Print publication year:
- 2022
- Online ISBN:
- 9781839981173
- Subjects:
- Social Theory, Sociology: General Interest, Sociology
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RKM's sociological work spans several decades: '20s (i.e., childhood), '30s (anomie, science, unanticipated), '40s (housing studies, mass communications, structural-functional analysis, professions, focus groups), '50s (reference groups), '60s (ambivalence), later-decades (structural analysis, Sociological semantics, cultural sociology). He particularly contributed to sociology during a period when several specialties were being set-up and yet his work spans both general and specialist sociologies. He is recognised as the father of: anomie/strain theory; focus groups; sociology of science; role-set theory; analytical sociology; structural-functional analysis; ambivalence studies; and sociological semantics, but always endeavoured to keep the multifarious threads of sociology together.
RKM stood at the junction of many other crossroads: classical and modern sociology; US and European sociology; theory and research; philosophy of social science and applied sociology; pure academic sociology and applied sociology; cognitive and social; social sciences and humanities; social sciences and science. Yet the different components of RKM's work and how each relates to the other. RKM had a major effect on the baby boomer generation of sociology who joined the ranks of sociology at a time of great expansion of university positions across many developed countries. Other generations since have been less exposed to his work.
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