This essay treats Burawoy’s advocacy for public sociology as a social problems claim. Using a social constructionist approach, I examine the rhetorical strategies Burawoy uses to construct the discipline in a way that makes public sociology seem not only relevant, but integral to what sociologists do. Sociology’s history, ethos and practitioners are framed in ways that make its commitment to th...

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...

Feminists are actively engaged in many academic disciplines in attempts to create new knowledge relevant to feminist issues. Attempts have been made to work within the mainstream of some disciplines, whose self-defined scope seemed to include these issues naturally. For example, women have been a legitimate topic of study in sociology, anthropology and psychology. The problem being recognized b...

This study, which contributes to the studies on sociologists and their works, have an important place in of determining history Turkish sociology, was formed by theoretical combination visualization Sociology. Studies create a timeline are that cover events effective certain period can be considered as turning point development of, effects on, sociology. The aim is select sociology main determi...

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.