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The three generations of the French sociology of art

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2021
This paper introduces the French sociology of art to English-speaking scholars. Its story begins with a shift from the humanities to social sciences through the use of empirical methods, and a change in focus from artworks to the social conditions of their production, mediation, and reception.
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First-Generation Sociology Majors

Contexts, 2016
First-generation immigrants studying as sociology majors see excellent employment outcomes.
Mary S Senter, Roberta Spalter-Roth
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Sociology and the Goal of Generalization

Contemporary Sociology, 1998
The purpose of this essay is to underscore the importance of two related insights that lie at the foundation of sociology and account for its unique contribution to the study of human behavior. The first is that social behavior is constrained by the context in which it occurs.
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Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies

European Journal of Sociology, 2010
AbstractSurveying three generations of comparative sociologists, separated by abrupt discontinuities, the study reaches the conclusion that the original promise of comparative sociology set in motion a century ago remains largely unfulfilled. It will then be argued that the work of the third generation of comparative sociologists on civilizational ...
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Divisions of General Sociology

American Sociological Review, 1957
ion-and, on the other hand, the attempt to isolate key variables of social reality within the situation that may be universal in their application. This is essentially the distinction between science in the naturalhistory sense and science in the hypotheticodeductive sense.4 An application of this distinction to the analysis of anthropological ...
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Sociology. General course

2018
The textbook aims to help students of sociology to scientifically comprehend the processes of emergence and development of ideas about the structure of social life and the main historical stages of formation of sociology as a science; to master the methodology of knowledge of social norms of life of people; to get acquainted with classical and modern ...
Natal'ya Bagdasarova, Alesandr Stradanchenkov, Vladimir Kondaurov, YEvgyeniy Kokhanov, Mariya Ionceva, Nikolay Kurtikov, Svetlana Simonenko, Mihail Zaharov   +7 more
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A sociological study of generational change in fathering

2023
This research examines generational changes in gender-role attitudes and fathering behavior in order to address three questions: In what ways are fathers of young sons the same, or different from, their fathers with respect to the attitudes and behavior of fathering sons?
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Mannheim's Sociology of Generations: An Undervalued Legacy

The British Journal of Sociology, 1994
ABS'I'RAC'I' Mannheim's 1923 essay 'The Problem of Generations' has often been described as the seminal theoretical treatment of generations as a sociological phenomenon. Yet in practice scant attention has been paid to the sociology of generations by British sociologists.
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The Role of General Sociology (1905)

1982
Thank you for sending me the observations called forth by our communications to the Sociological Society. I am glad to see, by the number and importance of the answers received, the interest the question has aroused.
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Revisiting General Theory in Historical Sociology

Social Forces, 2004
This article revisits the debate over general theory in historical sociology with the goal of clarifying the use of this kind of theory in empirical research. General theories are defined as postulates about causal agents and causal mechanisms that are linked to empirical analysis through bridging assumptions.
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