Professor Hausknecht, a member of the Department of Sociology of Hunter College, C.U.N.Y., probes the uses of conflict of sociological theories in nourishing conceptual development.
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References
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Talccit Parsons , "Individual Autonomy and Social Pressure: An Answer to Dennis H. Wrong," Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Revicw, 49 (Summer, 1962), pp. 70ff. "Mainstream" is meant to be a relatively neutral term.
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See, for example, Barrington Moore, Jr., Political Power and Social Theory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 123ff
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; Ralf Dahrendorf, "Out of Utopia: Toward a Reorientation of Sociological Analysis," American Journal of Sociology, XXIV (September, 1959), p. 123
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, Joseph Bensman and Israel Gerver, "Crime and Punishment in the Factory: The Function of Deviancy in Maintaining the Social System," Amer can Sociological Review, XXVIII (August, 1963), pp. 588-598
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C Wright Mills , The Sociological Imagination ( New York: Oxford Unive-sity Press, 1959), pp. 25-49.
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In addition to the works already cited above, see Alvin W. Gouldner, "Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology," Social Problems, 9 (Winter, 1962), p. 202
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; Lewis Coser, The Functions of Social Conflict (New York: The Free Press, 1956), p. 23
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It is the ideological commitments of the two sociologists that force Dahrendorf to note that the work of Merton and T. H. Marshall transcend the limitations he ascribes to middle range theories. Dahrendorf, op. cit., p 123, footnote 14.
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Dennis Wrong , "The Over-Socialized Conception of Man," Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review, 49 (Summer, 1962), pp. 53-69.
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This issue of the journal also contains the Parsons paper cited above as well as others pertinent to the issues being discussed here. Wrong's paper is foot-noted (p. 53) as being an "expanded version" of one first published in The American Sociological Review, 26 (April. 1961), pp. 183-193.
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Robert K. Merton , "Notes on Problem-Leading in Sociology," in Robert K. Merton, Leonard Broom, and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. (eds.), Sociology Today (New York : Basic Books, 1962), p. xi; Parsons, op. cit., p. 78.
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"Race Relat ons and the Sociological Imagination," American Socio-log cal Revew, 28 (December, 1963), p. 879.
