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Why Bother with Durkheim? Teaching Sociology in the 1990s

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ID3524973
AutoresDavid S Parker (0000-0003-1013-6510, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia), David Parker (0000-0001-7101-3843, University of Birmingham)
Año1997
Volumen45
Número1
Páginas122-146
Fecha de publicación1997-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.00057
OpenAlexW2011666165
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas23

Mark: That's the down side of setting up a grand narrative of sociology, people read the books when they're thirty, become professors of sociology and then do about one book every five years ... 'What should we mean by the "classics of sociology"? Does the term "classical social theory" have some real force, or is it just a vague label of convenience? And are "classics" the same as "founders"?' (Giddens, 1995: 4). Ashfaq: People are saying, some close friends of mine who I meet regularly, they say to me that the western disciplines, western education of social sciences, the whole framework which they follow is a non-starter for us and the whole thing has to change, change the rules of the game, goalposts ... you name it

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