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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Horowitz, Irving Louis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Sociology > Study and teaching > United States. Sociology > United States > History. Sociology Sociology > Study and teaching United States History
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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.
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
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Subject Index
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The Decomposition of Sociology.

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