Continual Permutations of Action

Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts, given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept.

--Gary Alan Fine, Social Forces

Although this book is promoted as a theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically, from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists.

--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology

Continual Permutations of Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas are interrelated.

--Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of Sociology

Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts, given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept.

--Gary Alan Fine, Social Forces

Although this book is promoted as a theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically, from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists.

--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology

Continual Permutations of Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas are interrelated.

--Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of Sociology

-Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts, given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept.-

--Gary Alan Fine, Social Forces

-Although this book is promoted as a theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically, from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists.-

--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology

-Continual Permutations of Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas are interrelated.-

--Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of Sociology