Toward an American sociology : questioning the European construct
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Toward an American sociology : questioning the European construct
Praeger, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The theories behind contemporary sociology were imported from Europe and first taught in American colleges in the late 1880s. Rooted in the soil of late feudal society, the received theories of current academic sociology simply cannot flourish in the democratic environment of modern America. This volume represents the author's effort to rethink the way sociologists approach both their discipline and the study of society and culture in the United States. The end product of this exercise is a distinctly American sociology.
Table of Contents
Foreword A New Sociology Needed The Hold of Feudalism Upon Modern Sociology The Structure of Sociological Revolutions The Lingering Influence of Greece European Outposts Versus Indigenous Sociology Weber: Some Unanswered Questions Questioning Durkheim Contradictions in Merton's Anomie and Science Models Collapse of the Old Sociology Americanizing Sociology Eastern Rites Sociology Natural, Old Sociology and Post Structuralism The Continuity of Paradigms Modernism and Postmodernism in Sociology Technicism, Conservatism, and the Curriculum: The Loser Sociology Dethroning the Old Gods Vernacular Sociology European Sociology in the American Context The Decline of Victorianism: A Walk Through the Twentieth Century Twenty-First Century Sociology Sociography Afterword Bibliography Subject Index Name Index
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