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Department and Discipline (Paperback, New)
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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 papers?
Abbott analyzes the shifts in social scientific inquiry and
discloses the intellectual rivalry and faculty politics that
characterized different stages of the Chicago School. Along the
way, he traces the rich history of the discipline's main journal,
the "American Journal of Sociology."
Embedded in this analysis of the school and its practices is a
broader theoretical argument, which Abbott uses to redefine social
objects as a sequence of interconnected events rather than as fixed
entities. Abbott's theories grow directly out of the Chicago
School's insistence that social life be located in time and place,
a tradition that has been at the heart of the school since its
founding one hundred years ago.
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