Tracing the history of American sociology since the Civil War, the authors of this important volume explain the field′s diversity, its lack of unifying paradigms, its broad, eclectic research agenda and its general weakness as an institutional force in either academia or the policy arena. They highlight the equivocal and often contradictory missions that sociologists prescribe for themselves and the variable nature of human, financial and intellectual resources available to the profession.
- ISBN10 0803938381
- ISBN13 9780803938380
- Publish Date 17 July 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English