Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change

-A posthumous publication of a study Blumer most likely began in 1959. The book does much to clarify and enhance Blumer's legacy, and the editors' introductory essay is most useful in establishing Blumer's monograph in its appropriate intellectual context. At a general level, the book provides a strong demonstration of how Blumer's symbolic interactionism can be successfully applied to the analysis of social structural phenomena. More substantively, the work gives an extended, clear, and definitive statement of what industrialization does and does not include. Although industrialization is an indisputable agent of social change, Blumer argues that industrialization is -indeterminate or neutral with regard to what happens in its wake-... As usual, Blumer's writing style is exceptionally clear and flowing as he systematically constructs his arguments in a classic essay style.-

--W. P. Nye, Choice "A posthumous publication of a study Blumer most likely began in 1959. The book does much to clarify and enhance Blumer's legacy, and the editors' introductory essay is most useful in establishing Blumer's monograph in its appropriate intellectual context. At a general level, the book provides a strong demonstration of how Blumer's symbolic interactionism can be successfully applied to the analysis of social structural phenomena. More substantively, the work gives an extended, clear, and definitive statement of what industrialization does and does not include. Although industrialization is an indisputable agent of social change, Blumer argues that industrialization is "indeterminate or neutral with regard to what happens in its wake..". As usual, Blumer's writing style is exceptionally clear and flowing as he systematically constructs his arguments in a classic essay style."

--W. P. Nye, Choice "A posthumous publication of a study Blumer most likely began in 1959. The book does much to clarify and enhance Blumer's legacy, and the editors' introductory essay is most useful in establishing Blumer's monograph in its appropriate intellectual context. At a general level, the book provides a strong demonstration of how Blumer's symbolic interactionism can be successfully applied to the analysis of social structural phenomena. More substantively, the work gives an extended, clear, and definitive statement of what industrialization does and does not include. Although industrialization is an indisputable agent of social change, Blumer argues that industrialization is "indeterminate or neutral with regard to what happens in its wake..". As usual, Blumer's writing style is exceptionally clear and flowing as he systematically constructs his arguments in a classic essay style."

--W. P. Nye, Choice