Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980

ISBN-13: 9781138483712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Philip Abrams; Rosemary Deem; Janet Finch

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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