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Sociology as an Academic Trade: Some Reflections on Centre and Periphery in the Sociology Market
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Sociology is a professional calling but, given the sociological struc ture of the academic market-place, we are forced to live it as a trade as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Sociology is a professional calling but, given the sociological struc ture of the academic market-place, we are forced to live it as a trade. Given a highly competitive struggle within the market, sociologists in search of employment and prestige are forced to innovate in order to secure clients and audiences. These market-determined innova tions lead to endless changes in paradigms and perspectives which give sociology, as an institution, the appearance of perpetual crisis. These crises are intensified at the periphery of the global market and thus the struggle for clients in Australian sociology is especially intense. These waves of fashion have obscured the real and central tradition of sociology which is the call to comprehend the nature of modern consciousness and the restraints which limit human potentialities.read more
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For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate
Sam Whimster,Bryan S. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: Weber and Weber as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between logic and Fate in Weber's Sociology of Law and the career of a concept in Medicine and Religion, and the development of Feudalism and Prebendalism.
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Theorizing health and illness: functionalism, subjectivity and reflexivity.
TL;DR: It is argued that the collective activity that constitutes health psychology can be made more explicit not only by devising reflexive theories and practices but by focusing on what the outcomes of that activity might be.
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Prophets and Patrons: The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences
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Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge
TL;DR: Profession of Medicine is a sociological analysis of the professions in modern society and the fundamental nature of the professional claim, and the structure of professional institutions is examined.
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The Professions and Social Structure
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The Sociological Tradition
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Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique
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