1st Edition
Professing Sociology Studies in the Life Cycle of Social Science
Edited By Irving Horowitz
Copyright 1968
387 Pages
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Routledge
388 Pages
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Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
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Professing Sociology was originally published at a time when sociology commanded widespread interest and public funding. Written by one of the leaders of "the new sociology" of the late sixties, this volume captures the nature and intensity of the field's intellectual foundations and scope. It reveals the field's post-World War II development as a scientific discipline and as a profession, and... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, by Howard G. Schneiderman Preface I. THE INNER LIFE OF SOCIOLOGY 1. Consensus, Conflict, and Cooperation 2. Scientific Criticism and the Sociology of Knowledge 3. Social Science Objectivity and Value Neutrality 4. Crime, Custom, and Culture 5. A Formalization of the Sociology of Knowledge 6. The Sociology of Social Problems 7. On Alienation and the Social Order 8. Social Deviance and Political Marginality II. THE ACADEMIC LIFE OF SOCIOLOGY 9. On Learning and Teaching Sociology 10. Establishment Sociology 11. Sociology for Sale 12. Anthropology for Sociologists 13. Max Weber and the Spirit of American Sociology 14. Mainliners and Marginals 15. From Social Psychology to Social Performance III. THE POLITICAL LIFE OF SOCIOLOGY 16. Functionalist Sociology and Political Ideologies 17. International Social Science Research 18. Social Science and Public Policy 19. The Life and Death of Project Camelot 20. Federally Sponsored Overseas Research 21. Social Science Fiction and the Americanization of Conflict 22. Social Indicators and Social Policies 23. Social Science Yogis and Military Commissars NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX
Biography
Irving Horowitz
