The Decomposition of Sociology.

This controversial treatise argues that sociology has declined as an academic discipline. The author describes how sociologists have become more involved in ideological critiques of modern society and, in the process, have abandoned the objective approach which was a mainstay of the field.

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Main Author: Horowitz, Irving Louis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- I: The Decomposition of Sociology -- 1. The Decomposition of Sociology -- 2. Disenthralling Sociology -- 3. Sociology and Subjectivity -- 4. Fascism, Communism, and Social Theory -- 5. From Socialism to Sociology -- 6. Scientific Access and Political Constraints -- 7. Public Choice and the Sociological Imagination -- 8. Social Contexts and Cultural Canons -- II: The Reconstruction of Social Science -- 9. Reconstructing the Social Sciences -- 10. Human Life, Political Domination, and Social Science -- 11. Policy Research in a Post-Sociological Environment. 
505 8 |a 12. Prediction and Paradox in Society -- 13. Freedom, Planning, and the Moral Order -- 14. Social Disputations and Moral Implications -- 15. Social Science and the Great Tradition -- 16. Social Science as the Third Culture -- Notes -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z. 
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