Mayer Zald On His Evolution Every Mo A Sociologist

I had the chance to accept luncheon with Mayer Zald inward July concluding summer, a few weeks earlier his death. Our conversation was wide-...

I had the chance to accept luncheon with Mayer Zald inward July concluding summer, a few weeks earlier his death. Our conversation was wide-ranging, precisely 1 segment inward item warrants publishing here. In this segment I asked Mayer how he sentiment well-nigh the connections alongside social psychology, organizational behavior, in addition to social movements theory inward the evolution of his thought.

The clip offers about interesting insights into the contingencies that occurred early on inward the career of this path-breaking sociologist to deed his degree of focus from the micro-level of social psychology to "meso"-level social phenomena similar organizations. (The value of meso-level question comes upwards repeatedly inward the conversation.) The clip provides a expert illustration of Mayer's incisive mind, expert humor, in addition to sudden ideas well-nigh sociological thinking.