The Social Fabric: Dimensions and Issues

Abstract

Preface - James F Short Jr INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The Social Fabric as Metaphor and Reality - James F Short Jr PART ONE: HOW IS SOCIAL ORDER POSSIBLE? From Structure to Order - Neil Smelser Individual Choice and the Social Order - William J Goode Institutionalized Public Memory - Mary Douglas A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Norms - Peter H Rossi and Richard A Berk The Problem of Order - Morris Zelditch Jr PART TWO: THE ORWELLIAN VISION: SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS Orwell as Macro-sociologist - Morris Janowitz War and Peace in Oceania - Kai Erikson The Iron fist and the Velvet Glove - Gary T Marx Totalitarian Potentials Within Democratic Structures PART THREE: SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PROCESSES To What Degree is a Social System Dependent on its Resource Base? - William R Catton Jr, Gerhard Lenski, and Fred H Buttel The Limits and Possibilities of Government - Richard D Schwartz A Perspective from Sociology of Law Government and the Making of Social Structure - Thomas S Moore and S M Miller Wheeling and Annealing - Eric M Leifer and Harrison C White Federal and Multidivisional Control Citizen Soldier Versus Economic Man - Charles C Moskos Social History and the Life Course Perspective on the Family - Irving Tallman A View from the Bridge Religion and the Social Fabric - Robert Wuthnow Media Linkages of the Social Fabric - Sandra Ball-Rokeach PART FOUR: SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC Sociology and the Nuclear Debate - Theodore Caplow Uses and Control of Knowledge - Harriet Zuckerman Implications for the Social Fabric