Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin

by Joseph Lopreato and Timothy Crippen

Book Overview

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808749
• ISBN13: 9780765808745
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"