Afterword: A Functional Analysis of the Crisis in American Society, 2020 [0.03%]
余论:美国社会危机的功能分析(二〇二〇年版)
Victor Lidz
Victor Lidz
In 2020, American society experienced a number of crises. They involved raced relations precipitated by the Black Lives Matter movement, the Covid 19 pandemic with its huge loss of life and rates of illness, the economic recession that acco...
How Society Changes: Sociological Enlightenment and a Theory of Social Evolution for Freedom [0.03%]
社会如何变革——启蒙的社会学与自由的社会进化论
Mitsuhiro Tada
Mitsuhiro Tada
This article clarifies the relationship between individual freedom and social order by relying on Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory and thereby defines sociology's contribution to social evolution as sociological enlightenment, which s...
Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology [0.03%]
生物学与美国社会学(二):发展独特的社会学进化论
Jonathan H Turner,Russell K Schutt,Matcheri S Keshavan
Jonathan H Turner
In sociology's formative period between 1830 and 1930, evolutionary analysis organized much theorizing and research. This line of work ended abruptly in the 1920s but, over the last decades, has come back into the discipline somewhat piecem...
A Systematic View on the Use of History for Current Debates in Sociology, and on the Potential and Problems of a Historical Epistemology of Sociology [0.03%]
关于历史在当前社会学辩论中应用的系统观点,以及社会学历史认识论的潜力和问题概述
Christian Dayé
Christian Dayé
For various reasons, among them changes in the global higher education regime and competitive knowledge claims from other disciplines, the field of the history of sociology (HoS) has experienced an increased pressure to justify its own exis...
Nathan Cofnas,Noah Carl,Michael A Woodley Of Menie
Nathan Cofnas
Data from the General Social Survey indicate that conservatives' self-reported trust in scientists has steadily decreased since 1974. In Cofnas et al. (The American Sociologist, 2017), we suggested that this trend may have been partly drive...
Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas Before, during and after Fieldwork in Less-Democratic Contexts: some Reflections from Post-Uprising Egypt [0.03%]
论民主制度缺失情况下的实地研究:实地考察前、中、后期的伦理考量与两难选择——后大起义时期的埃及为例
Arne F Wackenhut
Arne F Wackenhut
How do we conduct ethically sound social research in less- or non-democratic settings? Here, the 'ethical guidelines,' or 'codes of conduct' outlined by our professional organizations provide some, albeit only insufficient guidance. In such...
Recent ASA Presidents and 'Top' Journals: Observed Publication Patterns, Alleged Cartels and Varying Careers [0.03%]
近期的ASA主席与“顶级”期刊:观察到的发表模式、涉嫌垄断和多样化的职业发展路径
Jennifer Platt
Jennifer Platt
It has been common for studies presented as about American sociology as a whole to rely on data compiled from leading journals (American Sociological Review [ASR] and American Journal of Sociology [AJS]), or about presidents of the American...
Clarification? Yes! Standarization? No. Or: What Kind of Cooperation for the Sociology of Culture? [0.03%]
明确化?是的!标准化?不。或者:文化社会学应如何合作?
Monika Krause
Monika Krause
Christian Smith's paper "The Incoherence of 'Culture' in American Sociology" is a valuable provocation that can prompt us to reflect on the role of concepts and on the role of agreement on the definition of concepts in scientific research. ...
The Axial Age and the Problems of the Twentieth Century: Du Bois, Jaspers, and Universal History [0.03%]
轴心时代与二十世纪的问题:杜博斯、雅斯培和普遍历史观
John D Boy
John D Boy
The axial age debate has put big questions of social and cultural change back on the agenda of sociology. This paper takes this development as an occasion to reflect on how social thought works with (and against) nineteenth-century intellec...
Aristotle's Theory of Deviance and Contemporary Symbolic Interactionist Scholarship: Learning from the Past, Extending the Present, and Engaging the Future [0.03%]
论亚里士多德的越轨理论与当代符号互动主义研究:以史为鉴,面向未来
Robert Prus
Robert Prus
Although his work has been largely overlooked by symbolic interactionists and other students of deviance, Aristotle (c384-322BCE) addresses community life, activity, agency, and persuasive interchange in ways that not only are remarkably co...