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Why do people behave the way they do? Up to now, ritual has been
seriously underutilized for studying human behavior, i.e., ritual.
The structural ritualization theory, attempts to narrow this gap in
our understanding of the social causes and consequences of our
actions by focusing on the ritualized behaviors that define much of
our daily lives. Taking a broad approach to science in sociology
this perspective is grounded in a commitment to three goals: the
development of theory, substantiating these concepts through
empirical evidence, and the application of this knowledge to social
problems, dehumanizing conditions in contemporary society, and
enriching our personal lives. This book is the first to
comprehensively describe the structural ritualistic theory, which
since its inception a decade ago, has developed in several
directions involving different lines of cumulative research. This
book shows how structural reproduction has occurred throughout the
world, how rituals can be strategically used and power can
influence rituals, and how the disruption of ritualized practices
and the reconstitution of ritual subsequent to such events are of
crucial importance for human beings. Weaving its way through the
book Knottnerus discusses why ritual provides a missing link in
sociology and helps us better explain the extreme complexity of
human action and social reality."
Why do people behave the way they do? Up to now, ritual has been
seriously underutilized for studying human behavior, i.e., ritual.
The structural ritualization theory, attempts to narrow this gap in
our understanding of the social causes and consequences of our
actions by focusing on the ritualized behaviors that define much of
our daily lives. Taking a broad approach to science in sociology
this perspective is grounded in a commitment to three goals: the
development of theory, substantiating these concepts through
empirical evidence, and the application of this knowledge to social
problems, dehumanizing conditions in contemporary society, and
enriching our personal lives. This book is the first to
comprehensively describe the structural ritualistic theory, which
since its inception a decade ago, has developed in several
directions involving different lines of cumulative research. This
book shows how structural reproduction has occurred throughout the
world, how rituals can be strategically used and power can
influence rituals, and how the disruption of ritualized practices
and the reconstitution of ritual subsequent to such events are of
crucial importance for human beings. Weaving its way through the
book Knottnerus discusses why ritual provides a missing link in
sociology and helps us better explain the extreme complexity of
human action and social reality."
Portraying people who have lived and worked in long-term nursing
home facilities, Elder Care Catastrophe reveals how organizational
dynamics and everyday rituals have unintentionally led to resident
neglect and abuse. Backed up by research and grounded in
sociological theory, this book offers alternative models for
lessening the maltreatment of people living in nursing homes. It
provides critical information for family members struggling with
nursing home issues, nursing home employees, policy-makers,
students and researchers concerned with elder care issues.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological
Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he
described continues to define our world more than ever before. In
Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven
contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad
vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating
bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many
pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological
Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he
described continues to define our world more than ever before. In
Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven
contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad
vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating
bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many
pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.
"Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure" is an
integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in
social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book
is divided into six parts corresponding to six analytical levels of
social structure: social relationships, social networks,
intraorganizational relations, interorganizational relations,
societal stratification and the world system. The ten essays
expound and assess what has been learned about the influences of
social structure on human behaviour at each level of analysis. In
the introduction, the editors examine the metatheoretical issues in
structural analysis and promote the cause of theory integration.
This investigation examines the origins of American golf between
1894 and 1920 and the way various rituals of civility were
expressed in this newly emerging recreational pursuit. By employing
formal content analysis of numerous texts, historical sources, and
qualitative forms of evidence, and Structural Ritualization Theory
to analyze this historical phenomenon, the research demonstrates
that social characteristics of etiquette found in European noble
pastimes were also present in the American game of golf. These
qualities which dictated a civilized code of conduct and etiquette
that included self constraint, courteousness, proper decorum,
compliance, and honorable behavior, distinguished the upper class
from the lower classes and designated the game of golf for the
upper class while discouraging the lower classes from participating
in the pastime. The manifestation of civilized themes in the
Americanized version of golf that arose in this time period was
clearly marked by an internal class tension generated by the
demands of civility, democratic imagery and rhetoric, and social
exclusion and elitism.
On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural
Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep
underground while their loved ones were at home expecting their
return. The incident at Launch Complex 373-4 remains the deadliest
accident to occur in a U.S. nuclear facility. The 53: Rituals,
Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster analyzes the event. It looks
at causes but more importantly at how the mishap has affected
daughters and sons for nearly six decades. It gives new
sociological insight on technological disasters and the sorrow
following them. The book also details how surviving family members
managed themselves and each other while benefiting from the support
of friends and strangers. It describes how institutions blame the
powerless, and how powerful organizations generate distrust and
secondary trauma. With an analysis of the event and post-disaster
life, their children share stories on what went wrong and how they
keep moving forward.
For more than three hundred years, the American South was
essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system
penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political
life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key
institutional component of Southern society and played an integral
role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of
essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation of
historical data on plantation slavery by addressing different
questions concerning four broad areas of research--theoretical
perspectives; social institutions; race, gender, and social
inequality; and social change and social transformations. The
contributors depict slave plantations as organized social systems
that contributed significantly to the racial stratification of the
Southern plantation society, and in this way served as the origin
of contemporary race relations and social inequality in
America.
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