On social organization and social control

University of Chicago Press

1991

vii, 324 pages

Heritage of sociology

Introduction: A pragmatic sociology / James Burk -- pt. I. The logic of sociological inquiry -- 1. Styles of theory construction -- 2. The concept of social control -- 3. Theory and policy: engineering versus enlightenment models -- pt. II. Social organization: institutional development in advanced industrial society -- 4. Professionalization of military elites -- 5. The social dimensions of the local community -- 6. Inequality, occupations, and welfare -- 7. The emergence of weak political regimes -- pt. III. Primary groups and personal control -- 8. Social personality and personal control -- 9. Cohesion and disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II -- 10. Ethnic intolerance and hostility -- 11. The psychological context of welfare -- pt. IV. Social control: citizenship and democratic polity -- 12. Observations on the sociology of citizenship: obligations and rights -- 13. Military institutions and citizenship in western societies -- 14. Mass media and popular distrust -- 15. The social ecology of citizenship -- pt. V. Institution building and social change -- 16. The ideology of professional psychologists -- 17. Models for urban education -- 18. Institution building for military stabilization -- 19. Toward the reconstruction of patriotism

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