Saving Academic Sociology

Saving Academic Sociology

In this paper, I argue that academic sociology threatens to slip into the very limited relevance of scholasticism. Saving it from such a fate will require less academic interest in textual or epistemological analysis and more academic interest in the contributions to empirical understanding that app...

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Published in:Sociological inquiry Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 110 - 120
Main Author: Rossi, Peter H.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-01-1999
Subjects:
Academic Disciplines
Applied Sociology
Research Applications
Scholarship
Sociological Research
Sociology
Theory Practice Relationship
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Summary:In this paper, I argue that academic sociology threatens to slip into the very limited relevance of scholasticism. Saving it from such a fate will require less academic interest in textual or epistemological analysis and more academic interest in the contributions to empirical understanding that applied sociology can make.
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ISSN:0038-0245
1475-682X
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1999.tb00493.x