James S. Coleman -

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Résumé :
James S. Coleman was one of a distinguished generation of sociology students who passed through the Columbia Sociology Department in the 1940s and 50s. This book critically debates his work and his contribution to society and the social sciences more generally. It consists of 18 major papers by 20 authors from six countries on a range of themes. The volume is framed by an extended editorial introduction reflecting on the five- year exchange of correspondence between James Coleman and the editor, together with two of Coleman's own works.

Biographie:
Dr Jon Clark, Jon Clark

Sommaire:
Reflections on schools and adolescents, James S. Coleman; youth and adolesence - a historical and cultural perspective, Torsten Husen; Coleman's contribution to understanding youth and adolescence, Denise B. Kandel; private schooling in post-communist Poland, Barbara Heyns; early schooling and educational inequality - socioeconomic disparities in children's learning, Karl L. Alexander and Doris R. Entwistle; Coleman's contributions to education - theory, research styles and empirical research, James J. Heckman and Derek Neal; the sociological contribution to social policy research, Martin Bulmer; the political context of social policy research, Sally B. Kilgore; games with simulated environments, Sarane Spence Boocock; methodological individualism and collective behaviour, Benjamin Zablocki; mobility measurement revisited, David J. Bartholomew; self-employment and entrepreneurship - a study of entry and exit, Peter Abell; educational opportunities and school effects, Aage B. Sorensen; the violation of normative rules and the issue of rationality in individual judgements, Michael Imbar; foundational problems in theoretical sociology, Thomas J. Fararo; rational schoice as grand theory - James Coleman's normative contribution to social theory, Adrian Favell; constitutionalism versus relationalism - two versions of rational choice sociology, Siegwart Lindenberg; analyzing the economy - on the contribution of James S. Coleman, Richard Swedberg; can rational action theory unify future social science?, Randall Collins; a vision for sociology, James S. Coleman.