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The focus of this book is knowledge. I will review what sociological theory claims to know in the late twentieth century - 100 years into the development of the discipline. I have chosen not to stress the distinctness of our various schools of thought, but to bring them into dialogue, to show what they have to contribute on the major questions of the field. Hence this textbook is organized by areas of knowledge rather than by intellectual personalities or schools of thought. Inevitably, some theorists and schools of thought have concentrated on particular topics, and hence they will be located in few places in the book; others were interested in a number of different issues and they will turn up in many places. I hope sociological theory can be turned toward this knowledge-oriented way of looking at the field. Our current habit of dividing up the territory - by schools, each supporting a different theory, and by hero-figures of the past, whose ideas and lives are excavated in growing detail - threatens to institutionalize this fragmentation of knowledge into a permanent condition. This style of scholarship looks backward; it implies that everything of importance has already been done, and all we can do is study its separate lines of development. This approach also deepens the split between the sociologists engaged in research in substantive fields and those concerned with theory, as if each group has nothing to do with the other. But if we can see that both theory and research have a concern with knowledge in various topic areas, it becomes easier to bring them together... From the Introduction.

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  • PublisherWadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 015591474X
  • ISBN 13 9780155914742
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages565

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