The Future of sociology
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The Future of sociology
Sage Publications, c1988
Available at 33 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Published in cooperation with the Pacific Sociological Association."
Includes bibliographies
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Future of Sociology brings together outstanding sociologists in a variety of areas to present their expectations for the future development of sociological knowledge in their areas of expertise. The editors suggest that sociology, having forfeited primacy in the study of many social questions to other fields in the past few years, needs to become more responsive to changes. They react favourably to the increased concern among sociologists with research methodology, development of better data bases, and the application of knowledge. Specific prognoses for different areas of the field follow, covering the theoretical and methodological core of the discipline and different subfields -- social institutions, phenomena, agents of change and stratification.
These thoughtful essays by leading sociologists on the future of sociology will make provocative reading. The volume was developed in cooperation with the Pacific Sociological Association.
Table of Contents
Sociology and Its Future - Edgar F Borgatta and Karen S Cook
PART ONE: THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY
Sociological Theory - Herman Turk
Research Methodology in Sociology - Herbert Costner
How Applied Sociology can Save Basic Sociology - Richard Berk
PART TWO: INSTITUTIONAL AREAS IN SOCIOLOGY
Medical Sociology - Howard E Freeman
Sociology of Education - Leonard Gordon
Family Sociology - Rhonda J V Montgomery
Sociology of Religion - Anson D Shupe and Jeffrey K Hadden
Organizational Sociology - Lee Clark
Political Sociology - Paul Burstein
PART THREE: APPROACHES TO SOCIAL PHENOMENA
History in Sociology - Gary Hamilton
Urban Sociology - Barrett Lee
Demography - Thomas Pullman
Social Psychology - Karen Cook and Kenneth Pike
Models of Action, Reaction, and Interaction
PART FOUR: SOCIAL CONTROL, COMMUNICATION, AND CHANGE
Deviance and Social Control - Lois DeFluer and Robert Meier
Revisiting our Intellectual Heritage
Sociology of Law - H Laurence Ross and Lee Teitlebaum
Criminology - Kyle Kercher
Media Systems and Mass Communication - Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Social Change - Wilbert Moore
PART FIVE: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Social Stratification - Edgar F Borgatta and Laurie Hatch
Sociology of Race Relations in the United States - Edna Bonacich
Sex and Gender - Margaret Mooney Marini
Age, Aging, and the Aged - Judith Treas and Patty Passuth
The Three Sociologies
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