The programme of analytical sociology brings sharp focus to fundamental issues insociology as a scientific discipline. Its practitioners offer a clear paradigm of how sociologicalexplanations ought to proceed, from individual actors to social outcomes. This essay considerslimitations of the approach as a general framework for all sociological research, however. Theessay surveys ...

The present work displays an investigation focused on the understanding of sociology institutionalization in Mexico, and if it is possible to be spoken of an academic crisis of sociology, as it is handled nowadays, besides an investigation that takes care of specific values of the sociological knowledge in the reality of each region in Mexico. This approach starts, firstly, in a study of the so...

In this work, we address the transposition of a fragment of the modeling of the Sociology of Organized Action to the fuzzy setting. We present two different ways of developing fuzzy models in this context, that depend on the kind of available data furnished by the user: one based on the extension principle and another using fuzzy rule-based inference with similarity relations. We illustrate our...

Alice Stokes Paul was born in the United States (USA) on January 11, 1885 at Paulsdale Mount Laurel, New Jersey. She received a Ph.D. sociology and devoted her life to achieving rights for women. While academic work completed before term “clinical sociology” used States, certainly should be seen as part of history clinical sociology.

Despite the size and growth of political science and sociology relative to other disciplines, political science and sociology graduate students have received a declining share of funding for dissertation field research in recent years. Specifically, political science and sociology students are losing out to competitive applicants from humanities-oriented fields that provide strong training in a...