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Getting Sociology Right : A Half-Century of Reflections / Neil J. Smelser.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smelser, Neil J., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, Smelser discusses his views on the discipline of sociology and shows how his perspective of the field evolved in the postwar era.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction (2013)
- 1. The Optimum Scope of Sociology (1969)
- 2. Sociology and the Other Social Sciences (1967)
- 3. Some Personal Thoughts on the Pursuit of Sociological Problems (1969)
- 4. Biography, the Structure of Explanation, and the Evaluation of Research in Sociology (1980)
- 5. External Infl uences on Sociology (1990)
- 6. Sociology's Next Decades: Centrifugality, Conflict, Accommodation (1990)
- 7. Sociology as Science, Humanism, and Art (1994)
- 8. Problematics in the Internationalization of Social Science Knowledge (1991)
- 9. Social Sciences and Social Problems: The Next Century (1995)
- 10. The Questionable Logic of "Mistakes" in the Dynamics of Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences (2005)
- 11. Looking Back at Twenty-Five Years of Sociology and the Annual Review of Sociology (1999)
- 12. Sociological and Interdisciplinary Adventures: A Personal Odyssey (2000)
- Afterword (2013)
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520958487
- 0520958489
- OCLC:
- 875099022
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