Social Sciences
List by Elisabeth Simbürger (Sociology)
Bibliography selection Elisabeth Simbuerger
Alvesson, M. and Skoeldberg, K. 2000: Reflexive Methodology. New Vistas for Qualitative Research. London: Sage.
Archer, M. 2003. Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Archer, M. 2007. Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ashmore, M. 1989. The Reflexive Thesis. Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. London: The University of Chicago Press.
Bourdieu, P. and Wacquant, L. J. D. 1992. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. University of Chicago: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P. 1993. Sociology in Question. London : Routledge.
Burawoy, M. 1998. ?Critical Sociology: A Dialogue between Two Sciences?. Contemporary Sociology 27(1): 12-20.
Friedrichs, R. W. 1970. A Sociology of Sociology. New York: The Free Press.
Burawoy, M. 2005. ?2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: For public sociology?. The British Journal of Sociology 56 (2): 259-294.
Fuller, S 1988. Social Epistemology. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Fuller, S. W. 2006. The New Sociological Imagination. London: Routledge.
Gibbons, M. and Limoges, C. and Nowotny, H. and Schwartzmann, S. and Scott, P. and Trow, M. 1994. The New Production of Knowledge. The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies. London: Sage.
Gouldner, A. W. 1970. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. London: Heinemann.
Gouldner, A. W. 1973. For Sociology. London: Allen Lane.
Horowitz, I. L. 1970. ?Mainliners and Marginals: The Human Shape of Sociological Theory?. In L. T. Reynolds and J. M. Reynolds (eds.) 1970. The Sociology of Sociology. Analysis and Criticism of the Thought, Research, and Ethical Folkways of Sociology and Its Practitioners. New York: David McKay Company: 340-370.
Horowitz, I. L. 1994. The Decomposition of Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lepenies, W. (ed.) 1981. 4 volumes. Geschichte der Soziologie: Studien zur kognitiven, sozialen und historischen Identitaet einer Disziplin. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Letherby, G. 2000. ?Dangerous liaisons: auto/biography in research and research writing?. In G. Lee-Treweek and S. Linkogle (eds.) 2000. Danger in the field. Risk and ethics in social research. London: Routledge.
Lynd, R. 1964. Knowledge for What? The Place of Social Science in American Culture. New York: Grove Press.
May, T. 2001. Social Research. Issues. Methods and Process. Third Edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
May, T. (ed.) 2002. Qualitative Research in Action. London: Sage.
Mills, C. W. 2000 (1959). The Sociological Imagination. Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pullen, E. 1999. Feminism and Sociology: Processes of Transformation. Thesis, Department of Sociology: University of Warwick
Reynolds, L. T. and Reynolds, J. M. (eds.) 1970. The Sociology of Sociology. Analysis and Criticism of the Thought, Research, and Ethical Folkways of Sociology and Its Practitioners. New York: David McKay Company.
Rojek, C. and Turner, B. 2000. ?Decorative Sociology: Towards a Critique of the Cultural Turn?. The Sociological Review 629-648.
Scott, J. [2005]. ?Sociology and its Others: Reflections on Disciplinary Specialisation and Fragmentation?, Sociological Research Online 8 (3). Online.Available from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/pughwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk:80/10/1/scott.html [accessed 22/03/06].
Smith, D. 1974. ?Women?s Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology?. Sociological Inquiry 44 (1): 7-13.
Stanley, L. and Wise, S. 1993. Breaking Out Again. Feminist Ontology and Epistemology. New Edition. London: Routledge.
Stanley, L. 1990. ?Feminist praxis and the academic mode of production: an editorial introduction?. In L. Stanley (ed.) Feminist Praxis. Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology. New York: Routledge: 3-19.
Stanley, L. and Wise, S. 1990. ?Method, methodology and epistemology in feminist research processes?. In L. Stanley (ed.) Feminist Praxis. Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology. New York: Routledge: 20-60.
Wise, S. and Stanley, L. [2003]. ?Review Article: ?Looking back and looking forward: some recent feminist sociology reviewed?,Sociological Research Online 8 (3). Online.Available from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/3/wise.html [accessed 20/02/06].
Woolgar, S. (ed.) 1988. Knowledge and Reflexivity. New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Sage.
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Scope Of Sociology
Every science has its own areas of inquiry. It becomes difficult for any one to study a science systematically unless its boundaries are demarcated and scope determined precisely. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on the part of sociologist with regard...
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Sociology Is A Categorical And Not A Normative Dicipline
Sociology "confines itself to statements about what is, not what should be or ought to be". "As a science, sociology is necessarily silent about questions of value. It does not make any kind of value-judgements. Its approach is neither moral nor moral...
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Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
Prof. Durkheim, the French thinker, like Spencer, considered societies as such to be important units of sociological analysis. He stressed the importance of studying different types of society comparatively "Comparative Sociology is not a particular...
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Kalpana Kannabiran
Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor of Sociology at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India and founder member of a women's collective, Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she coordinates research and legal outreach for women. She was Chair of RC32...
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Studies On Philosophy
(This list was compiled by Mathieu Doucet and Sergio Sismondo) Collins, R. (1998). The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. Doucet, Mathieu (2003) The Philosopher's Laboratory:...
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