Essays in sociological theory
In: Sociology
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In: Sociology
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 21-27
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 107-115
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 371-372
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Progress in Public Administration, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 607-636
In: The journal of negro education: JNE ;a Howard University quarterly review of issues incident to the education of black people, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 392
ISSN: 2167-6437
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 57, Heft 4, S. 870-872
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 23-34
ISSN: 1536-7150
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 374-375
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The review of politics, Band 16, S. 475
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 475-484
ISSN: 1748-6858
The vague conceptualization of basic social phenomena seriously obstructs a clear understanding of many of the causes underlying national and international tensions. Significant contributions to the solution of these problems can hardly be expected as long as social scientists continue to operate with common-sense notions and the idols of the market place whose connotations are ever shifting with the changing intellectual fashions and political aspirations. Frequently these public concepts themselves are potent tools with which special interest and power groups may create and perpetuate conflict situations. Among the most fundamental, and at the same time potentially most dangerous, ideas are those of the nation, the people, and the ethnic group. In the following essay an attempt is made to formulate scientifically more adequate concepts within the frame of reference of sociological theory in the hope that social scientists in various fields might find them useful in their analysis of the highly complex social systems characteristic of modern times, and in the solution of certain practical problems affecting the national and international order.
In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 225