Smelser, Neil J.

Theory of collective behavior by Neil J Smelser ( Book )
41 editions published between 1962 and 1998 in English and Spanish and held by 1,601 libraries worldwide

Handbook of sociology ( Book )
24 editions published between 1967 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 1,451 libraries worldwide

Economy and society : a study in the integration of economic and social theory by Talcott Parsons ( Book )
49 editions published between 1956 and 2010 in English and held by 1,378 libraries worldwide

The sociology of economic life by Neil J Smelser ( Book )
28 editions published between 1963 and 1977 in 3 languages and held by 1,328 libraries worldwide

Sociology by Neil J Smelser ( Book )
46 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 1,302 libraries worldwide

Themes of work and love in adulthood ( Book )
8 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and held by 1,125 libraries worldwide

Problematics of sociology the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995 by Neil J Smelser ( Book )
8 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,111 libraries worldwide
"Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered at Humboldt University in the spring of 1995, Problematics of Sociology is a distillation of Neil Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology." "Each chapter considers a different level of analysis: micro, meso, macro, and global. Within this framework, the themes considered range over a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and nonrational in social action and in social science theory; social institutions as imagined entities; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity."--BOOK JACKET.

Personality and social systems by Neil J Smelser ( Book )
12 editions published between 1963 and 1970 in English and held by 1,080 libraries worldwide
"We conceive this book to have two objectives, one academic and one pedagogic. On the academic side, the study of the relations between personality and social systems--like much of social psychology in general--has a "shreds and patches" quality. Many disciplined and theoretically relevant items of research appear in the learned journals, but seldom are they organized systematically. Most books of selected articles reflect this undisciplined character of the field. We hope we have achieved a somewhat tighter conceptual framework in organizing this book of selections. We lay out the broad lines of this framework in the Introduction and attempt to adhere to it consistently in assigning articles to their appropriate place throughout the volume. On the pedagogic side, courses in personality and society sprawl awkwardly over a number of college and university departments--psychology, social psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Teachers from each department view the subject from their own particular vantage point and sometimes neglect contributions from other areas. In this book we attempt to cover all the areas of the social sciences in which research on the relations between personality and social systems is currently proceeding. Our modest hope is that we have been able thereby to broaden the scope of many teachers"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

The handbook of economic sociology ( Book )
18 editions published between 1994 and 2011 in English and held by 1,047 libraries worldwide
Reflecting the growing interest in economic sociology, this new edition has been comprehensively updated to include important developments in this field of scholarship since the mid-nineties.

Terrorism perspectives from the behavioral and social sciences ( Book )
8 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 966 libraries worldwide
"In this report we focus on the nature and determinants of terrorism itself and, second, on domestic responses to terrorist activity."--P. viii.