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Sociology and Social Research (RLE Social Theory)
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Routledge
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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect. This is the message of the authors of this book in this reassessment of the evolution and present state of British sociology.
Their investigation analyses the discipline as a social institution, whose... Read more
1. The Development of British Sociology 2. The Social Context of British Sociology 3. Theory and Empiricism 4. Grand Theory and Not So Grand Theory 5. The Ethnographic Tradition 6. The Ethnomethodological Movement 7. Sociology and Policy Research 8. Sociology and Action Research 9. The New Methodology 10. Who Runs Research? A Case Study 11. Practical Ethnography 12. Sociology and the Social Science Research Council 13. A Future for British Sociology?
Biography
Geoff Payne, Robert Dingwall, Judy Payne, Mick Carter
