Christopher Prendergast

By Way of Deduction: Schütz's Essay on Taxation

Alfred Schützs 1927 essay on capital income taxation is examined in the contexts of the evolution of the German progressive income tax, the fiscal and monetary crises of the time, and Schützs relationship to the Austrian school of economics.

Current Perspectives in Social Theory: A Research Annual, Volume 11.

Disciplinary sociology in the united methods of empiricism - marking the boundaries to keep the poachers out, Tugrul Ilter testing Gouldners coming crisis thesis - on the waxing and waning of intellectual influence, James J. Chriss the making of serious speech - a social theory of professional discourse, Steven C. Ward reading Deleuze and Guattari fast, Allen Shelton the birth of the cinematic, surveillance society, Norman K. Denzin culture, social structures and discursive fields, Lyn Spillman critique, conservatism, ideology - the Frankfurt schools critique of the sociology of knowledge revisited, Goran Dahl can symbolic interactionism really contribute to macro sociology, Jonathan H. Turner morality, free will and transcendence in Parsons action theory, Jan Ajzner regulation theory and the politics of global restructuring, Sara Schoomaker between democratic populists and bureaucratic greens - the limits of liberal democratic responses to the environmental crisis, Timothy W. Luke the evolution of systems of social interaction, John Skvoretz and Thomas J. Fararo.

CONDORCET'S CANAL STUDY: THE BEGINNINGS OF SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

During 1775–76, the Marquis de Condorcet collected birth and death records, and related socio-economic information, in the vicinity of a proposed canal in the Somme valley, north of Paris. He put this information into a predictive model of the effects of canal seepage on mortality rates and made a number of recommendations. Condorcets inquiry differed fundamentally from the informal forecasts that advisors historically provided the court. The selection of independent and dependent variables, the attempt to isolate the effects of canal seepage from other (largely socio-economic) causes of mortality, and the use of quantification marked a new application of scientific method to problems of public administration. This type of work is called “social impact assessment” (SIA) today.

Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Supplement 1: Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure.

Recent developments in the theory of social structure - introduction and overview, Christopher Prendergast and J. David Knottnerus social relationships the new studies in social organization - overcoming the astructural bias, Christopher Prendergast and J. David Knottnerus social exchange theory and social structure - a critical comparison of two traditions of inquiry, J. David Knottnerus expectation states theory and the analysis of group processes and structures, J. David Knottnerus social networks networks in organizational structures and strategies, David Knoke and Miguel Guilarte intraorganizational relations structure and process - theory and research on organizational stratification, Amy S. Wharton interorganizational relations institutional accounts of organizations as a form of structural analysis, David Strang societal structures - stratification systems and elites social structure and life chances, Peter M. Blau assessing the new structuralism, Amy S. Wharton the corporate elite and the politics of corporate control, Gerald F. Davis the world system a global social structure? evaluating the advancement of the world-systems perspective, William G. Martin.