The Crisis in Sociology : : Problems of Sociological Epistemology / / Raymond Boudon.

Presents the field of sociology by looking at macrosociology, neo-Marxism, Lazarsfeld's Metasociology, sociological epistemology, and method.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]
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Year of Publication:1980
Language:English
Series:European Perspectives
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction: The Crisis in Sociology
  • Part One. The Sociology of Sociology
  • 2. Sociology in the Year 2000
  • 3. The Three Basic Paradigms of Macrosociology: Functionalism, Neo-Marxism and Interaction Analysis
  • 4. Tarde’s ‘Psychological Statistics’
  • 5. Lazarsfeld’s Metasociology
  • Part Two. Sociological Epistemology
  • 6. Towards a Positive Epistemology
  • 7. Theories, Theory and Theory
  • 8. The Notion of Function
  • Part Three. Questions of Method
  • 9. The Functions of Formalisation in Sociology
  • 10. The French University Crisis: An Essay in Sociological Diagnosis
  • Notes
  • Name Index