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Researching the Sociology Curriculum
1993In his 1986 BSA Presidential address, Martin Albrow called for a positive affirmation of the value of the sociology degree as providing both a liberal and a broadly vocational education. People opt to study sociology ‘for their intellectual and personal betterment’ and because ‘it may provide a highly suitable education preparatory to work’.
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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY
Nature, 1942IN any discussion upon the better organization of research in the social sciences in Great Britain the question of the place to be assigned to historical research will inevitably arise. This article leaves on one side the problems of the general development of research in social, economic and cultural history, and considers only the need for research ...
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Churches and Sociological Research
Toronto Journal of Theology, 1988In recent years churches have occasionally turned to sociologists for help. They have asked these social scientists to study the ecclesiastical set-up and come up with proposals for improving its outreach and efficiency. Is this a wise thing to do? The answer to this question depends on the approach to sociology taken by the practitioner.
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Sociological Research in India
Social Change, 2015Yogendra Singh (Ed.), Indian Sociology, 3 Vols, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, 1241 pp., ₹4750, ISBN 0-19-809202-4 (Vol. 1), 0-19-809203-2 (Vol. 2), 0-19-809204-0 (Vol. 3).
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The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research
American Sociological Review, 1953times are contradictory. That's good. For all will hope that nothing said today to our young Ph.D.'s will inhibit a daring willingness to pick up torches which others found too hot to handle or which in older hands merely sputtered and went out. And all through this unique symposium there glows a faith in the future for those who will build the ...
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An Interpretation of Sociological Research
American Journal of Sociology, 1931Comte initiated a research emphasis in sociology and used the data of history for purposes of induction. The Scotch school added observations from life to logic; Le Play attempted local studies; Quetelet applied statistics to sociological problems; Buckle refined the anthropogeographic procedure; and Spencer emphasized induction from ethnographic data.
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Sociological Aspects of Epilepsy Research
Epilepsia, 1972SUMMARYTo show that sociology can also provide etiological contributions to epilepsy research, an investigation by the author is described which shows that authoritarian education considerably lessens the chances of control of seizures in epileptic children.
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American Journal of Sociology, 1945
The fifty years of the American Journal of Sociology record the development of sociological research in the United States. Its early issues show that sociologists at first were preoccupied with the formulation of the basic ideology of sociology and with the development of a system of concepts oriented to empirical research.
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The fifty years of the American Journal of Sociology record the development of sociological research in the United States. Its early issues show that sociologists at first were preoccupied with the formulation of the basic ideology of sociology and with the development of a system of concepts oriented to empirical research.
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Sociology and History. Theory and Research.
History and Theory, 1965Alvin Boskoff +2 more
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Sociology of Disasters: Contributions of Sociology to Disaster Research.
Contemporary Sociology, 1988Shirley Laska +3 more
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