American Sociologist articles

Recent articles from American Sociologist

Editor's Introduction: Theorists and Traditions.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... A hallmark of successful creativity, whether in science, the arts and humanities, or practical activism, is a living tradition that reaches across generations. Sociology is fortunate in having a number of such traditions, and there are grounds for optimism that others will emerge from the...

Sociological and Interdisciplinary Adventures: A Personal Odyssey.
December 22, 2000... Every academic discipline, including those in the behavioral and social sciences,(1) presents a number of tensions that its practitioners must resolve, if only implicitly and by indecision. Three of these tensions are particularly salient for this essay: * What should be the disciplinary...

Ambivalent Interactionist: Anselm Strauss and the "Schools" of Chicago Sociology.
December 22, 2000... This article takes up the discussion recently stimulated through the volume, A Second Chicago School?. That book's connecting postwar Chicago sociology with the "Chicago approach" of mainly the 1910s to 1930s is extended, going back as far as the turn of the twentieth century and also forward...

Old Chicago and New France.(French sociological thought)
December 22, 2000... While Americans are still twisting their brains around the rhetorics of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, the field of French discourse is once again being resited. "Old Chicago Sociology/Anthropology" has become practically and theoretically influential. Durkheim and Mauss, Sartre and Althusser,...

Department and Discipline.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Department and Discipline, by Andrew Abbott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. This book originates from a commission to Andrew Abbott to write a history of the American Journal of Sociology (AJS), as part of the celebratory activity to mark its centenary. He became heavily...