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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: -- A Post-Truth Predicament? -- Abstract -- In Truth… -- The Diversity of Theory and Methods -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 1 -- The Indolent Science -- Abstract -- The "Littlest" Science? -- The Absence of Sociological Consilience -- Inertial Conditions -- Bowling Alone -- Inadequate Funding -- Lack of International Cooperation -- Selection Bias -- Random Sampling and Environmental Complexity -- Political Support -- The Cultural Problem of Indolence -- The Path Ahead -- References -- Chapter 2 -- When You Are a Racist, Theoretically Speaking: Empirically Demonstrating Blumer's Group Position Theory -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Previous Research -- Case Study: An Experimental Design for an Empirical Test of Group Threat -- Study Design -- Data -- Findings -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- Future Tests -- Wider Implications -- Appendix -- Perpetrator-Focused Written Representation Condition -- Perpetrator-Focused Visual Representation Condition -- Victim-Focused Written Representation Condition -- Victim-Focused Visual Representation Condition -- Control Group Condition -- References -- Chapter 3 -- What Criminals Do, at Least Theoretically: Agent Based Modeling as a Strategy for Critically Testing Criminological Theories -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Approach -- Agent Based Models -- ABMs and the Emergence of Crime -- Theoretical Underpinnings of Agent Based Models of Crime -- An Agent Based Model of Incarceration -- Further Theoretical Implications -- ABM's Theoretical Flexibility: Testing Specific Hypotheses -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Incarceration Model's Parameters -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Committing Sociology in an Age of "Fake News": Mass Media, Twitter, and the Struggle for Knowledge in the Public Sphere -- Abstract -- Introduction

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Value of Labour-Power and Health -- 2 Durkheim and Social Realism: An Approach to Health and Illness -- 3 Bodies of Knowledge: Foucault and the Problem of Human Anatomy -- 4 The Lost Subject of Medical Sociology -- 5 Parsons, Role Theory, and Health Interaction -- 6 Goffman, Interactionism, and the Management of Stigma in Everyday Life -- 7 Habermas and the Power of Medical Expertise -- 8 Rationalism, Bureaucracy, and the Organization of the Health Services: Max Weber's Contribution to Understanding Modern Health Care Systems -- 9 Political Science and Health Policy -- Index.

Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Orienting Ourselves -- 1.2 Three Challenges -- 1.2.1 The Time Crunch -- 1.2.2 The Slavish Adherence Principle -- 1.2.3 The Conceptual Crunch -- 1.3 An Overview -- 1.3.1 Classic Questions -- 1.3.2 Levels of Social Reality -- 1.3.2.1 Rethinking the Macro-Micro Link -- 1.3.2.2 From Top to Bottom -- 1.3.3 Theorizing the Social World -- 1.3.3.1 Constraints on the Lived Experience -- 1.3.3.2 Modes of Change -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Classical Questions Contemporalized -- 2: Integrating and Disintegrating Dynamics in Human Societies -- 2.1 Approaching the Analysis of Integration in Societies -- 2.2 The Macrodynamics of Integration -- 2.2.1 Structural Mechanisms of Integration -- 2.2.1.1 Segmentation -- 2.2.1.2 Differentiation -- 2.2.1.3 Interdependencies -- 2.2.1.4 Segregation -- 2.2.1.5 Domination and Stratification -- 2.2.1.6 Intersections -- 2.2.1.7 Cultural Integration -- 2.3 The Microdynamics of Integration -- 2.3.1 Basic Conditions of Emotion Arousal -- 2.3.2 The Distribution of Generalized Symbolic Media -- 2.3.3 Meeting Expectations and Receiving Positive Sanctions -- 2.3.4 Transactional Needs and Their Effects on Meeting Expectations and Receiving Positive Sanctions -- 2.4 Mesodynamics of Integration -- 2.4.1 Fields and Niches Among Corporate Units -- 2.4.1.1 The Ecology of Corporate Units -- 2.4.1.2 Structural and Cultural Fields -- 2.4.2 Intersection and Consolidation Among Categoric Units -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Power in Organizational Society: Macro, Meso and Micro -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Macro Approach to Power -- 3.3 The Micro Approach to Power -- 3.4 Introducing the Meso-Level -- 3.4.1 A Brief History of the Emergence of Organizational Society.