Discusses the institutional effects of education as a system of social legitimation which confers success on some and failure on others. Comparative and experimental studies are suggested. (Author/DB)

Explores the social process of establishing a standard time-reckoning framework. The paper examines the introduction of Greenwich Mean Time in Britain, the establishment of the American railway time-zone system, and the almost universal enforcement of the international standard time-zone system. (AM)

Structural and historical theories of peasant rebellions are evaluated against large-scale rebellions which occurred throughout the Russian Empire in 1905-07. The analysis corroborates the propositions of historical theory. Peasants rebel because of threats to their access to an economic subsistence. (Author/AM)

Research attempted to measure the variations in structure and procedure among juvenile courts by constructing an empirical typology. Results confirmed two major types of courses, traditional and due process, and revealed variations in court structure and procedure that are not captured adequately by existing simplistic typologies. (AM)

Discusses Kenneth Burke's contributions to sociology. Shows that he does not distinguish between knowledge and meaning. Although Burke emphasizes interpretations as a cause of action, he sees interpretive frames as social, external, and constraining, derived from the dominant mode of production. They help legitimate and reproduce the social order.…

Examines Max Weber's "Ancient Judaism" and relates this work to his other writings, to its background in contemporary German scholarship, and to his approach to historical sociology. (Author/AM)

Discusses the log-multiplicative association model and demonstrates how it can be used in four research situations involving ordinal variables. (Author/AM)

Contends that there have been three stages or eras of social science: the philosophic, the scientific, and the as yet unnamed present era. Maintains that the three eras match, in chronological development, the successive periods of Marxian thought and the three different views of utopia offered by Thomas More, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Mannheim.…

In De la Division du Travail Social, Durkheim's causal explanation for secular increases in the division of labor and the differentiation of social structure is flawed. His metatheoretical concerns expressed in the critique of utilitarian social theory flawed his contributions to a causal explanation of social differentiation. (Author/AM)

Stipulates the need for a more adequate theoretical framework for sociological research on patterns of marital mobility of women. Identifies major characteristics of an ideal framework and applies the resulting theoretical approach to the marital relationship by discussing traditional and alternative hypotheses about stratification mechanisms…

Explains the significance of Habermasian theory for the emancipatory tradition, analyzes certain problems of the theory and argues that an expanded dialogue with American pragmatism would strengthen both its sociological and its normative dimensions. Raises critical questions about pseudohistorical, normative justification in general sociological…

Reviews three recent books which attempt to explain effects of the long-term manufacturing trends toward greater uniformity of production, increasing centralization of decision-making, and more automation. (JDH)

This study investigated how literary elites in three different cultures interpreted a group of novels written by George Lamming, a writer from the Caribbean area whose novels were read, discussed, and interpreted over a span of 20 years beginning in the 1950s. Concludes that cultural differences influenced the readers' interpretations. (JDH)

An historical investigation of the concept of habit in sociology, this article points out that though missing from most contemporary work in sociology, the concept of habit was an important term in sociological works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The general question of how conceptual structure of an intellectual field…

The author of The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology considers some of the criticisms directed at it in the July 1972 American Journal of Sociology, and expresses some of his reactions to them. (Author)