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Jan 13, 2022 · Resumen. This review paper marks the 70th anniversary of Current Sociology, the first journal founded by the International Sociological Association (ISA). The past seven decades have been a time of immense change within sociology and around the world, and the shifts within the structure and content of the journal mirror these transformations.
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Jul 1, 2021 · This special issue of The American Sociologist brings to fruition a plan that was first formulated and discussed during the 2019 ASA Annual Meeting in New York. As the incoming chair for the ASA’s History of Sociology (HoS) Section, Jill Niebrugge-Brantley issued an invitation and challenge. At the most practical level, the invitation and ...
- Laura Ford, Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley
- 2021
Dec 11, 2017 · Rob Stones’s article ‘Sociology’s Unspoken Weakness: Bringing Epistemology Back In’, argues that the ontological turn – towards ‘being’ – that enabled sociology to address all manner of social phenomena, has tended not to be accompanied by a corresponding development of a sophisticated grasp of the intellectual dynamics of ‘knowing’.
- Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, David Rowe, Deborah Stevenson
- 2017
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To most if not all of the efforts of the classics the formula applies, which was once used by Stephen Mennell: “in attempting to put their own society and its recent transformations in the perspective of the history of humanity as a whole, [they] actually succeeded in putting the whole history of humanity in the perspective of their own society” (M...
The historical imagination of the classics did not last long. One contributory cause of its decline was the Americanization of social science (Steinmetz 2007: 1). It is a paradox that Talcott Parsons, who had been the principal agent of Weber’s reception in the USA, was himself a proponent of the systems theory that virtually did away with the hist...
For both the global North and the global South, or – at the time – both for the socialist and the capitalist world, the end of the 1960s was the time of great upheaval, from which a renewal of interest in history was reborn. As Andrew Abbot wrote in connection with the developments in American academia: What happened in America in the 1960s cannot ...
self-interest. In brief, interest was very much a part of the set of con-cepts that the classics used when they laid the foundation for modern sociology. What happened after the classics is, on the other hand, much less clear, apart from the fact that the ideas of Ratzenhofer and the clas-sics fell into oblivion.
Sociology. Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization ...
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Jan 21, 2016 · The history of sociology is both a traditional area of sociology itself and a part of the history of the social sciences as studied by intellectual historians and historians of science. The earliest writings on the subject were completed by sociologists attempting to construct a canon and a history of the discipline reaching into the distant ...
