Description
Book SynopsisExamining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, this book discusses author's views on the discipline of sociology and shows how his perspective of the field evolved in the postwar era.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 (2) Afterword Index
