References
Becker, Howard. 1986.Doing Things Together: Selected Papers. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Blumer, Herbert. 1931. “Science Without Concepts.”American Journal of Sociology 36:515–33.
Coleman, James. 1986. “Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action.”American Journal of Sociology 91:1309–35.
Collins, Randall. 1986. “Is 1980’s Sociology in the Doldrums?”American Journal of Sociology 91:1336–55.
Geertz, Clifford. 1983.Local Knowledge. New York: Basic Books.
Lakatos, Imre. 1970. “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.” Pp. 91–196 inCriticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Maines, David. 1989. “Herbert Blumer on the Possibility of Science in the Practice of Sociology: Further Thoughts.”Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18:160–77.
McMullin, E. 1970. “The History and Philosophy of Science: A Taxonomy”Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 5:12–67.
Merton, Robert. 1967.On Theoretical Sociology. New York: Free Press.
Parsons, Talcott. 1954. “The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology.” Pp. 212–37 inEssays in Sociological Theory. New York: Free Press.
Shils, Edward. 1970. “Tradition, Ecology, and Institution in the History of Sociology.”Daedalus 99:760–825.
Wagner, David and Joseph Berger. 1985. “Do Sociological Theories Grow?”American Journal of Sociology 90:679–728.
Wardell, Mark and Stephen Turner (eds.). 1986.Sociological Theory in Transition. Boston: Allen and Unwin.
Wiley, Norbert. 1979. “The Rise and Fall of Dominating Theories in American Sociology.” Pp. 47–79 inContemporary Issues in Theory and Research, edited by W. Snizek, E. Furhman, and M. Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
He teaches primarily in the areas of theory and social psychology, and is just completingTime and Social Process (Aldine deGruyter).
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Maines, D. Pursuing the simplifications in smelser’s vision. Am Soc 21, 294–297 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692431
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692431