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...

The understanding of contemporary economic geographies and global “social facts” represent the best challenge for Burawoy’s public sociology. Scholars wonder whether sociology can successfully address our time’s problems, keeping its spirit service to community alive. Indeed, recent political events require formulating a new sociological imagination that is more creative, open, accessible gener...

The author is concerned with a relatively neglected theme in the sociology of knowledge: the growth and content of scientific ideas as influenced by the social structure in which they flourish, or fail to flourish. The two areas she examines are agricultural innovation in the field of rural sociology and that part of mathematics which deals with the theory of finite groups. She discusses in par...

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