Scott (Sociology, University of Essex) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00073.x Who will speak, and who will li...

Rafael Merino Senior lecturer and lecturer of the Department of Sociology, in the sociology unit of the Faculty of Education Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1993. Currently reader. Since 1992 researcher with the Education and Work Research Group of the same university (GRET Grupo de Investigación Educación y Trabajo), pursuing avenues of research into the transition betw...

Every discourse has a context. Every discourse has a motive. The Sociology that developed in 19th century France was a response to the social crisis that was experienced there at that time. The Sociology that developed in 19th century France had a context. The man who is considered to be the founding father of Sociology, Auguste Comte was convinced that a science of society was possible and wou...

American Studies is an academic discipline whose object of study is the United States of America and everything associated with it, and American sociologists largely ignore it. American Studies largely ignores American sociology. What causes this mutual exclusion? An outline of the disciplinary history of American Studies and journal article citation data show that the relationship between soci...

Elizabeth Churchill is an applied cognitive psychologist with interests in science and technology studies, sociology and anthropology. She is a Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, designing technologies for mediated communication. Thomas Erickson is an interaction designer with interests in rhetoric, sociology and architecture and urban design; he is a...

In the study of the history and sociology of science, there has been a relative lack of attention to one of the interesting aspects of the social process of discovery-the resistance on the part of scientists themselves to scientific discovery. General and specialized histories of science and biographies and autobiographies of scientists, as well as intensive discussions of the processes by whic...

Like Regnerus, the editor of Social Science Research, James D. Wright, has been at the receiving end of an outpouring of anger over the paper. At the suggestion of another scholar, Wright, a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida, assigned a member of the journal’s editorial board—Darren E. Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale—to e...

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