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In: International Library of Sociology
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 143-145
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Annual review of sociology, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. xiii-xxx
ISSN: 1545-2115
What follows is a personal appraisal of the development of sociology over the past 50 years. The 1930s were a time of high hopes, empirically (field studies, new statistical techniques) and theoretically (for instance, functionalism and operationalism). The great achievement of sociology has been its development of statistical techniques, but these have had the effect of inhibiting field studies. In theory, sociology has remained divided into a number of different schools, a condition maintained by the failure of most sociologists to consider what a theory is. The condition can be overcome only by sociologists' accepting the "covering law" view of theory, the covering laws referring to the behavior of individual persons as members of a single species, and the laws themselves being the laws of behavioral psychology. Recent favorable developments in sociology include network analysis, historical sociology, and sociobiology.
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 14, Issue 6, p. 893-897
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 126-129
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In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 14, Issue 3, p. 395-399
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 265-268
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 137-140
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 877-880
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 13, Issue 4, p. 609-613
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 89, Issue 4, p. 941-944
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 1-45
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 681-684
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Volume 23, Issue 3, p. 285-299
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 239-241
ISSN: 0304-2421