The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology

by Stephen P. Turner and Jonathan H. Turner

Book Overview

What accounts for American sociology′s diversity, its broad and eclectic research agenda, its lack of unifying paradigms, and its overall weakness as an institutional force in both academia and the policy arena? Stephen Park Turner and Jonathan H. Turner critically examine the discipline, tracing its historical roots back to the Civil War. In their comprehensive analysis, the authors point out the "accidents" in the history of the discipline...

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