Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE INTELLECTUAL DEBATES AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; 1 Professionalism in British Sociology; 2 Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices and Virtues; 3 Oxbridge Sociology: the Development of Centres of Excellence?; 4 The Collapse of British Sociology?; PART TWO SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: CREATION AND PRACTICE; 5 The Social Construction of 'Positivism' and Its Significance in British Sociology, 1950-80; 6 The Anti-Quantitative Bias in Postwar British Sociology; 7 Towards a Rehabilitation of Data
8 W(h)ither Sociological Methodology?: Generalisation and Comparative Method9 Sociological Practice and Language; PART THREE MARXISM AND FEMINISM: RADICAL INTERVENTIONS IN SOCIOLOGY; 10 Sociologies and Marxisms: the Odd Couples; 11 The Division of Labour Revisited or Overcoming the Two Adams; Bibliography; Index
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"Originally published in 1981 Practice and Progress is a collection examining the changes that have occurred in the theories, methodologies and practices of sociology, in the institutional and educational setting of the subject, and in British society. The themes pursued include the professionalization of sociology its development and standing in the universities; the impact on it of Marxism and feminism and the major debates over positivism and empiricism, quantitative methods, linguistic analysis; and numerous other crucial methodological and theoretical concerns."--
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Sociology-- Great Britain, Congresses.
Social policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.
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Abrams, Philip
British Sociological Association., Annual Conference(1980 :, British Sociological Association),author.