03167nam 2200577 450 991080903560332120230421045117.00-19-972931-X1-280-52767-61-4294-0600-3(CKB)1000000000465850(EBL)272873(OCoLC)870243598(SSID)ssj0000135929(PQKBManifestationID)12045896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135929(PQKBWorkID)10064429(PQKB)11052083(MiAaPQ)EBC272873(Au-PeEL)EBL272873(CaPaEBR)ebr11303260(CaONFJC)MIL52767(EXLCZ)99100000000046585020161201h19941994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe decomposition of sociology /Irving Louis HorowitzNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1994.©19941 online resource (289 p.)Includes indexes.0-19-509256-2 Contents; Introduction; I: The Decomposition of Sociology; 1. The Decomposition of Sociology; 2. Disenthralling Sociology; 3. Sociology and Subjectivity; 4. Fascism, Communism, and Social Theory; 5. From Socialism to Sociology; 6. Scientific Access and Political Constraints; 7. Public Choice and the Sociological Imagination; 8. Social Contexts and Cultural Canons; II: The Reconstruction of Social Science; 9. Reconstructing the Social Sciences; 10. Human Life, Political Domination, and Social Science; 11. Policy Research in a Post-Sociological Environment; 12. Prediction and Paradox in Society13. Freedom, Planning, and the Moral Order14. Social Disputations and Moral Implications; 15. Social Science and the Great Tradition; 16. Social Science as the Third Culture; Notes; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; ZSociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of political extremism. As a result, the field is in crisis. Some departments have been shut down, others cut back, research programs have dried up, and the growth ofprofessional organizations and student enrollments have been either curbed or atrophied. In The Decomposition of Sociology, Professor Horowitz, for four decades a leading social scientist, offers a frank and full account of the maelstrom engulfing this field. Horowitz pulls no punches in this provocativeSociologyStudy and teachingUnited StatesSociologyUnited StatesHistorySociologyStudy and teachingSociologyHistory.301.0973Horowitz Irving Louis126287MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809035603321The decomposition of sociology4119175UNINA