Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred

by Andrew Abbott

Book Overview

In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how such schools reproduce themselves over time. What are the preconditions from which schools arise? Do they exist as rigid rules or as flexible structures? How do they emerge from the day-to-day activities of academic life such as editing journals and writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226000990
• ISBN13: 9780226000992
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"