Practice and Progress

British Sociology 1950-1980
Herausgeber: Abrams, Philip; Finch, Janet; Deem, Rosemary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1981 Practice and Progress is a collection examining the changes that have occurred in the theories, methodologies and practices of sociology, in the institutional and educational setting of the subject, and in British society. The themes pursued include the professionalization of sociology its development and standing in the universities; the impact on it of Marxism and feminism and the major debates over positivism and empiricism, quantitative methods, linguistic analysis; and numerous other crucial methodological and theoretical concerns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781138483712
• ISBN-10: 1138483710
• Artikelnr.: 69897622

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Intellectual Debates and Institutional Contexts 1.
Professionalism in British Sociology 2. Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices
and Virtues 3. Oxbridge Sociology: The Development of Centres of Excellence
4. The Collapse of British Sociology Part II: Sociological Knowledge:
Creation and Practice 5. The Social Construction of 'Positivism' and its
Significance in British Sociology, 1950-80 6. The Anti-Quantitative Bias in
Post-war British Sociology 7. Towards a Rehabilitation of Data 8. W(h)ither
Sociological Methodology?: Generalisation and Comparative Method 9.
Sociological Practice and Language Part III: Marxism and Feminsim: Radical
Interventions in Sociology 10. Sociologies and Marxisms: the Odd Couples
11. The Division of Labour Revisited or Overcoming the Two Adams
Bibliography Index