Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 1

Jonathan Turner is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of California Riverside. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968 and since the 1969-1970 academic year, he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more substantive specialities, including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association.He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, Germany, Shandong University, and Nan Kai University, People's Republic of China.

• Macrodynamics: First Steps in Developing a General Sociological Theory.- Selection Pressures and the Evolution of the Macrodynamic Realm.- Elemenary Principles on Macrodynamic Forces.- The Dynamics of Institutional Domains.- The Dynamics of Stratification Domains.- The Dynamics of Stratification Systems.- The Dynamics of Societal Systems.- The Dynamics of Inter-Societal Systems.- Principles of Macrodynamics.- Microdynamics: Encounters at the Micro-level Realm of Reality.- The Embedding of Encounters.- Demographic and Ecological Dynamics of Encounters.- Status Dynamics in Encounters.- Role Dynamics in Encounters.- Cultural Dynamics in Encounters.- Motivational Dynamics in Encounters.- Emotional Dynamics in Encounters.- Principles of Microdynamics.- Mesodynamics: The Meso-Level Realm of Reality.- Micro-and Macro-Level Constrains under Mesodynamics.- Corporate Unit Dynamics: Groups, Organizations, Communities.- Corporate Unit Dynamics in Categoric-Unit Dynamics.- Principles of Mesodynamics.