The Institution of Theory

by Murray Krieger and Professor Murray Krieger

During at least the past decade, violent controversy in what has become known as the "human sciences" has been generated, as perhaps never before, by the increasingly aggressive role played by theory. Murray Krieger was one of those largely instrumental in moving theory into that role. In The Institution of Theory, he examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080184830X
• ISBN13: 9780801848308
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher