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Show CHAPTER I SMELSER'S THEORY OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR Determinants and Components Radical discoveries and inventions have not been the consequences of the usual observations. or perspectives often Kuhn are This the aim of the present study actual situation. Since for example, argues that the results of observations from unusual perspectives. an (1962), study is to a is effort in such an the apply directions and sometimes direction. That is, scheme of Smelser to analytic model is easy to a new new manipulate, this may help in ,iI, the discovery of the investigation. Such In studying possibilities are understanding principles a and analysing more phenomena under be radical in sociology. complicated historical episode, can the mis makes the pitfalls the use of a rigorous, well-known, and A model which also divides the possible, phenomena clearer, phenomena, arranges the elements more visible, more testable understandable. Smelser's model (1962) of collective behavior is both comprehensible , and utfli.z abl e, dividing - result in the mis -interpretation and explanation of the and limits its scope, and, if successively and any the great of misunderstanding basic processes, and this precise model is invaluable. narrows underlying discovery would, indeed, To avoid such phenomena. and laws the The determinants of this' model perform the service of phenomena and placing them in successive steps. |
