Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Abbott took his BA (in history and literature) at Harvard in 1970 and his PhD (in sociology) from the University of Chicago in 1982. Prior to his return to Chicago in 1991, he taught for thirteen years at Rutgers Universi...
Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Abbott took his BA (in history and literature) at Harvard in 1970 and his PhD (in sociology) from the University of Chicago in 1982. Prior to his return to Chicago in 1991, he taught for thirteen years at Rutgers University.
Known for his ecological theories of occupations, Abbott has also pioneered algorithmic analysis of social sequence data. He has written on the foundations of social science methodology and on the evolution of the social sciences and the academic system. He is the author of five books and seventy articles and chapters.
His work includes The System of Professions (Chicago 1988), a theoretical analysis of the professions and their development that won the ASA's Sorokin Award in 1991. More recent books include a historical study of academic disciplines and publication (Department and Discipline [Chicago 1999]) and a theoretical analysis of fractal patterns in social and cultural structures Chaos of Disciplines [Chicago 2001]). Abbott has also published a collection of theoretical essays in the Chicago pragmatist and ecological tradition (Time Matters [Chicago 2001]) and a short introduction to heuristics in the social sciences (Methods of Discovery [Norton 2004]).
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Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Prologue......Page 16
Part 1 Self-Similarity in Social Science......Page 18
1 The Chaos of Disciplines......Page 20
2 The Duality of Stress......Page 51
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Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Prologue......Page 16
Part 1 Self-Similarity in Social Science......Page 18
1 The Chaos of Disciplines......Page 20
2 The Duality of Stress......Page 51
3 The Fraction of Construction......Page 77
Appendix: A History of “Social Construction” to 1990......Page 106
4 The Unity of History......Page 108
5 The Context of Disciplines......Page 138
Part 2 Two Essays on Self-Similarity......Page 172
6 Self-Similar Social Structures......Page 174
Appendix: Fractal Scales......Page 203
7 The Selfishness of Men......Page 214
Epilogue......Page 250
References......Page 254
Index......Page 270
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The five years or so of "exciting new work" are followed by sys- tematic treatises setting out the new point of view. Theoretical terms are temporarily stabilized in books with titles like Keywords or The New Sociology of X. The stream of empirical work swells. Now well into their assistant professorships, the new generation holds counter-plenary sessions at meetings, drawing the multitude from the elders'celebrations of old pieties. By the end of the first decade the new [sic] view has invaded survey articles and the more current of textbooks. Consolidation follows By this point, the major theoretical work is done. So students are directed to produce more and more detailed empirical studies comparisons, analyses of subproblems), which help anchor the paradigm. Results are often disappoin... (查看原文)
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