Concepedia

Abstract

For which audiences would the book be useful? First, it is aimed at the recruit ... for action sociology. Second, it is for hybrids-i.e., professors who are also off-campus sociologists. Third, it is a challenge to educated people who regard sociology as professional scientism (theoretical and methodological sophistry) . . . Included in this third audience are those who exert pressure on graduate students and young academics to stay closer to home . . . -i.e., to confine academic sociology to the cam-