Search Results: social theory and social structure toward by merton robert k

Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951 423pp. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is sunned. Top edge of text block is dust stained. Lower edge of text block has small light stains. Top edge of both boards are sunned. Former owner bookplate inside front board. Former owner stamp on rear endpaper. Boards have a slight bend. Text is unmarked. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket.

Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 2nd printing. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Spine reinforced with broad, transparent tape. Boards rubbed. Extremities and edges rubbed and frayed. Joints reinforced with lib tape. Binding holding well. 423pp well-thumbed but with very few markings.

Glencoe IL: The Free Press,, 1949. First edition, first printing, of a landmark text in sociology, introducing many concepts which are now a mainstay of the modern discipline. In a 1998 survey, the work was selected by the International Sociological Association as the third most important sociological book of the 20th century, behind only Weber's Economy and Society and Mills's Sociological Imagination. Concepts introduced in this work include reference groups, obliteration by incorporation, manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions, and self-fulfilling prophecies. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends and extremities lightly sunned, dust jacket spine darkened and a little scuffed, chipped at extremities and slightly soiled; a good copy.