The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology

by Stephen P. Turner and Jonathan H. Turner

Book Overview

Tracing the history of American sociology since the Civil War, the authors of this important volume explain the fields diversity, its lack of unifying paradigms, its broad, eclectic research agenda and its general weakness as an institutional force in either academia or the policy arena. They highlight the equivocal and often contradictory missions that sociologists prescribe for themselves and the variable nature of human, financial and intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803938381
• ISBN13: 9780803938380
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.