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Coleman, James Samuel was born on May 12, 1926 in Bedford, Indiana, United States. Son of James Fox and Maurine (Lappin) Coleman.
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"Hier haben wir eine Raritat in der Soziologie vor uns: eine koharente, scharfsinnige Analyse der ganzen Vielfalt von Kernproblemen der Disziplin - das Selbst, individuelle und soziale Entscheidung, Familie, Normen, Herrschaft, Macht, kollektives Handeln, Burokratie, Revolution -, die uberzeugend und prazise genug ist, um formale Modelle zur Dynamik sozialer Systeme zu ermoglichen." Michael T. Hannan, Cornell University
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Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used two perspectives in analyzing social action. One sees man's action as the result of causal forces, and the other sees action as purposive and goal directed. Mathematical treatment of social action has shown this same dichotomy. Some models of behavior describe a causal process, in which there is no place for intention or purpose. Most stochastic models of behavior, whether individual or group, are like this. Another body of work, however, employs purpose, anticipation of some future state, and action designed to maximize the proximity to some goal. Classical microeconomic theory, statistical decision theory, and game theory exemplify this direction. This book examines these two directions of work, and makes original contributions to the second. An introductory chapter outlines these two bodies of work, and casts them in a common frame, to display their similarities and differences. Chapter 2 reviews at length recent work in stochastic processes that makes up the first body of work, which sees social action as the resultant of causal forces. The remaining chapters develop a mathematical framework for the study of systems of social action using a purposive theoretical base. These chapters are designed particularly to contribute to the study of collective decisions, a form of social action that has proved particularly challenging to theoretical analysis. First published in 1973, this became a significant work both in problem solving and in the future career of the author. It is of continuing importance to researchers and students interested in statistical analysis.
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Power and the Structure of Society POWER AND THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY By Coleman, James Samuel ( Author )Jan-01-1974 Paperback
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Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and change in social systems. This book provides for the first time a sound theoretical foundation for linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior and then to society as a whole. The power of the theory is especially apparent when Coleman analyzes corporate actors, such as large corporations and trade unions. He examines the creation of these institutions, collective decision making, and the processes through which authority is revoked in revolts and revolutions. Coleman discusses the problems of holding institutions responsible for their actions as well as their incompatibility with the family. He also provides a simple mathematical analysis corresponding to and carrying further the verbal formulations of the theory. Finally, he generates research techniques that will permit quantitative testing of the theory. From a simple, unified conceptual structure Coleman derives, through elegant chains of reasoning, an encompassing theory of society. It promises to be the most important contribution to social theory since the publication of Talcott Parsons' Structure of Social Action in 1936.
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This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consistent and highly distinguished attempt to find an account of the workings of social and political processes rooted in the rationality of the individual participants. The chapters address in various ways the fundamental Hobbesian problem of order; the question of how a set of self-interested individuals can arrive at some kind of social order. The volume is organised in three parts. The essays in Part I address the problem of social choice as a fundamental problem of the functioning of social systems. Those in Part II deal with relations of power as a crucial aspect of the relations between individual actions and their social consequences. Part III considers the question of the creation of collectivities and the rights that are allocated under them. As a whole, the volume demonstrates the integration and force of the views Coleman has developed.
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From the dust jacket: "Resources for Social Change is a book with both a specific and a general purpose. Its specific purpose is to provide a framework that will aid in describing and implementing the process of gaining resources (power) among blacks in the United States. . . . The general purpose of this book is to introduce a new approach to the theory of social change."
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Coleman, James Samuel was born on May 12, 1926 in Bedford, Indiana, United States. Son of James Fox and Maurine (Lappin) Coleman.
Student, Emory and Henry College, 1946. Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1955.
Degree (honorary), Purdue University. Degree (honorary), State University of New York. Degree (honorary), Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Degree (honorary), University Southern California. Degree (honorary), Free University Brussels. Degree (honorary), University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Degree (honorary), Marquette University. Degree (honorary), Haifa University. Degree (honorary), University Notre Dame.
Research associate, Bureau Applied Social Research, Columbia University, 1953-1955;
fellow, Center Advanced Study Behavorial Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1955-1956;
assistant professor sociology, University of Chicago, 1956-1959;
professor, University of Chicago, 1973-1995. From associate professor to professor social relations Johns Hopkins University, 1959-1973. Member President's science advising committee, 1970-1972, science advising committee General Motors, 1972-1983.
Honorary professor of University Vienna.
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( Combining principles of individual rational choice with...)
(Power and the Structure of Society POWER AND THE STRUCTUR...)
(From the dust jacket: "Resources for Social Change is a b...)
( Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used t...)
( Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used t...)
(This book brings together the most important theoretical ...)
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Member National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Education, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Academy of Sciences Sweden, Polish Sociological Association, American Philosophical Society.
Married Lucille Richey, February 5, 1949 (divorced August 1973). Children: Thomas Sedgwick, John Samuel, James Stephen. Married Zdzislawa Walaszek, 1973.
1 son, Daniel Wlodzimierz.