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Theory of Fields
Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2015
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 0.80in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9780190241452
- Categories: • Methodology
About the Author
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. A renowned scholar of economic sociology, organizations, and political sociology, he is the author or coauthor of six books, including The Architecture of Markets and Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe.
Doug McAdam is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books in the area of political sociology, with an emphasis on social movements and revolutions. Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Freedom Summer, and (with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention.
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Praise for this book
"In this bold and sweeping new work, Fligstein and McAdam make the first global contribution to sociological field theory since Bourdieu's Distinction. Finding order and turbulence not only in the semi-autonomous fields that others have investigated, but also in the complex interplay of social movements and the state, Fligstein and McAdam produce a vision that is theoretically insightful, empirically generative and will re-energize the quest for a fundamental grasp of the dynamics of large-scale social interaction." --John Levi Martin, University of Chicago"In this much-anticipated book, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam bring their rich and influential strands of scholarly work together to develop a provocative account of how skilled individuals upset established routines and build new political and organizational fields. The core of their argument emphasizes on how people deploy resources, build connections, and forge new practices. In so doing, they place agency in a new and analytically tractable light. This signal accomplishment will be essential reading to all political and organizational scholars." --Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
"In A Theory of Fields, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam provide a powerful synthetic approach to the analysis of interconnected "strategic action fields" that anchor interaction and meaningful membership. This conceptual language breaches distinctions among political, economic, and other sociologies to advance a compelling general approach to the most basic sociological questions of order and change. Fligstein and McAdam have accomplished the difficult task of grappling with fundamental issues of social theory while advancing a program of social research that should both engage advanced scholars and inspire those earlier in their careers." --Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"...an important work that has been at least two decades in the making. Fligstein and McAdam began forming the key insights of the book during their time at the University of Arizona in the 1980s and 1990s, mingling ideas from McAdam's work in social movement theory with Fligstein's political theory of markets. I hope that field theory will continue to evolve as a deductive theory for explaining how actors' relative positions shape their actions, how positions evolve over time, and how changes in position create instability in fields. This book serves as a useful launch point for this type of analysis." --Administrative Science Quarterly
"In A Theory of Fields, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam provide a powerful synthetic approach to the analysis of interconnected "strategic action fields" that anchor interaction and meaningful membership. This conceptual language breaches distinctions among political, economic, and other sociologies to advance a compelling general approach to the most basic sociological questions of order and change. Fligstein and McAdam have accomplished the difficult task of grappling with fundamental issues of social theory while advancing a program of social research that should both engage advanced scholars and inspire those earlier in their careers." --Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago"...an important work that has been at least two decades in the making. Fligstein and McAdam began forming the key insights of the book during their time at the University of Arizona in the 1980s and 1990s, mingling ideas from McAdam's work in social movement theory with Fligstein's political theory of markets. I hope that field theory will continue to evolve as a deductive theory for explaining how actors' relative positions shape their actions, how positions evolve over time, and how changes in position create instability in fields. This book serves as a useful launch point for this type of analysis." --Administrative Science Quarterly