Getting Sociology Right : A Half-Century of Reflections /
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, S...
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Berkeley, California :
University of California Press,
2014.
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- Cover; Contents; Introduction (2013); PART I: EARLY SEARCHING; 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); PART II: LATER EXPLORATIONS; 4. Biography, the Structure of Explanation, and the Evaluation of Research in Sociology (1980); 5. External Influences 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); PART III: SOME RECENT REFLECTIONS; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.