L T Nichols
Biographic Data
| ID | 125677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L T Nichols |
| GIVEN NAMES | L T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichols |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLS L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7872-5915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Patrick L Schmidt, Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science
Sorokin, Parsons and Harvard: Rivalry, Status Reversal and Stratification in Science
Paradigms as Epistemology, Ontology and Politics
Sorokin’s Amitology and Lewis’s Four Loves: Integrating Scientific and Artistic Imaginations
Toward an Integral, Professional-Public Sociology: The Example of Gordon W. Allport
The Interstitial Ascent of Talcott Parsons: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Careerism at Harvard, 1927–1951
Louisa Pinkham Holt, Public Sociology and Racial Desegregation
Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science
Respect for the historical record requires also attention to the controversies and crises that punctuated Pitirim Sorokin’s long journey. This chapter examines the relationship between Sorokin and the American academic context in which he spent most of his professional life. Occupational identities may be regarded as products of symbolic interaction. Once formed, identities remain malleable and vulnerable, as members of groups continually monitor…
S orokin, P itirim A. (1889–1968)
A world‐class scholar of exceptional erudition, Pitirim A. Sorokin contributed much to the development of both academic and public sociology in Russia and in the United States. As a young man, Sorokin was deeply involved in politics, but he became disillusioned and devoted himself to scholarship, though always with an eye toward social issues. He held professorships at the University of Saint Petersburg, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard U…
Editor’s Introduction, “International Sociologies, Communication, and Publics”
The Enduring Social Psychology of Robert K. Merton: Motivating Sentiments, Reference Groups and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Scientific Language, Journals and Careers
Contextual Understanding in Constructionism: A Holistic, Dialogical Model
This paper seeks to develop contextual constructionism through elaboration of the concept of context and the articulation of an accompanying methodology for empirical research. I approach context as a construct involving awareness when: (1) claims-makers define contexts in social problem debates, and (2) academic analysts do likewise in studying those debates and their outcomes. Such constructions can either converge or diverge, both within and a…
Sociology, Evaluation and Dialogue
Histories and Visions
Modern Roots of the Sociology of Love
Modern Roots of the Sociology of Love: Tolstoy, Addams, Gandhi, and Sorokin
New academic fields of study emerge in diverse ways. Some, following Kuhn's (1962) well-known model of "scientific revolutions," are created when members of a scholarly community notice an accumulation of lacunae in established paradigms. Others differentiate gradually from ongoing fields, as when sociology branched off from economics (Young 2009). In still other cases, a "founder-leader" and a network of followers collaborate to generate a new "…
Collective Identity Narratives: Historical and Emergent Stories of Selfhood in a Deindustrializing Community
Purpose – The chapter seeks to broaden the literature on narrative identity by focusing on the processes by which collective, or group, identity narratives develop over time.Methodology/approach – The chapter combines a “netnography” approach (i.e., ethnography using the Internet) with traditional ethnographic procedures in order to develop an in-depth case study of the collective identity narratives of a selected community that is undergoing rap…
North Central Sociological Association Presidential Address. Renewing Sociology: Integral Science, Solidarity, and Loving Kindness
The field of sociology is an ongoing creative process that always requires new energy and new insights. At the same time, in order to remain a collective project, sociology requires solidarity among its practitioners. This article offers reflections on how the discipline might be renewed and revitalized in the context of the still relatively young twenty-first century. Specifically, it calls for an Integral approach to science, for increased bond…
Sorokin as Lifelong Russian Intellectual: The Enactment of an Historically Rooted Sensibility
Stratification, Partisanship and Love
Commemorating Charles Tilly
Merton as Harvard sociologist: Engagement, thematic continuities, and institutional linkages
In this paper I explore the significance of the initial decade of Robert K. Merton's graduate and professional career, from 1931, when he entered the new doctoral program in sociology at Harvard, until 1939, when he joined the Department of Sociology at Tulane University as an associate professor and acting chairperson. Drawing on archival sources, as well as the professional literature, I examine how Merton engaged the exceptionally rich, interd…
Public Sociology: Problematics, Publicity, and Possibilities
North Central Sociological Association Presidential Address. Renewing Sociology: Integral Science, Solidarity, and Loving Kindness
The field of sociology is an ongoing creative process that always requires new energy and new insights. At the same time, in order to remain a collective project, sociology requires solidarity among its practitioners. This article offers reflections on how the discipline might be renewed and revitalized in the context of the still relatively young twenty-first century. Specifically, it calls for an Integral approach to science, for increased bond…
Sorokin as Lifelong Russian Intellectual: The Enactment of an Historically Rooted Sensibility
Merton as Harvard sociologist: Engagement, thematic continuities, and institutional linkages
In this paper I explore the significance of the initial decade of Robert K. Merton's graduate and professional career, from 1931, when he entered the new doctoral program in sociology at Harvard, until 1939, when he joined the Department of Sociology at Tulane University as an associate professor and acting chairperson. Drawing on archival sources, as well as the professional literature, I examine how Merton engaged the exceptionally rich, interd…
Social Problems as Landmark Narratives: Bank of Boston, Mass Media and 'Money Laundering
The paper examines how claimsmakers selectively construct instances of alleged problems as “landmark narratives,” with particular attention to the rhetorical practices of mass print media. The analysis shows how currency reporting violations at the Bank of Boston became synonymous with “money laundering,” and how official claimsmakers exploited the case to produce a wave of similar violations, thereby creating a warrant for new policies
Talcott parsons and the "far east" at Harvard, 1941-48: Comparative institutions and national policy
Altruism and social solidarity: Envisioning a field of specialization
Social relations undone: Disciplinary divergence and departmental politics at Harvard, 1946–1970
Sociology in the women’s annex: Inequality and integration at Harvard and Radcliffe, 1879–1947
The Interstitial Ascent of Talcott Parsons: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Careerism at Harvard, 1927–1951
Whistleblower' or 'Renegade: Definitional Contests in an Official Inquiry
This paper addresses the interpretive dynamics of official inquiries. Beginning with an ideal-typical sketch of congressional investigations, the discussion traces a portrayal of public problems by a committee of the House of Representatives. This leads to the analysis of a hearing in which committee factions struggled to define an Air Force administrator as a 'whistleblower' or a 'renegade.' The hearing is understood as a 'certification ceremony…
Contextual Understanding in Constructionism: A Holistic, Dialogical Model
This paper seeks to develop contextual constructionism through elaboration of the concept of context and the articulation of an accompanying methodology for empirical research. I approach context as a construct involving awareness when: (1) claims-makers define contexts in social problem debates, and (2) academic analysts do likewise in studying those debates and their outcomes. Such constructions can either converge or diverge, both within and a…
The Enduring Social Psychology of Robert K. Merton: Motivating Sentiments, Reference Groups and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science
Louisa Pinkham Holt, Public Sociology and Racial Desegregation
Commemorating Charles Tilly
Public Sociology: Problematics, Publicity, and Possibilities
Editor’s introduction emergent fields in sociology: Terrorism
Editor’s inaugural statement
Deviance and social science: The instructive historical case of Pitirim Sorokin
Historical deviance in the sciences is approached through the perspective of interpretive sociology. According to this approach, the professional identities of scientists are always “at risk.” Over periods of time, the potentiality for either positive or negative deviance generates “moral careers” for scientists. Such careers are denned by shifting evaluations of scientists' worth by authoritative and powerful audiences. This conceptualization is…
Whistleblower' or 'Renegade: Definitional Contests in an Official Inquiry
This paper addresses the interpretive dynamics of official inquiries. Beginning with an ideal-typical sketch of congressional investigations, the discussion traces a portrayal of public problems by a committee of the House of Representatives. This leads to the analysis of a hearing in which committee factions struggled to define an Air Force administrator as a 'whistleblower' or a 'renegade.' The hearing is understood as a 'certification ceremony…
Intergenerational solidarity in the creation of science: The ross-sorokin correspondence, 1921–1931
The paper examines the relationship between two seminal figures in American sociology, in terms of its contribution to the movement to establish the science within the academic world. Using archival data, the analysis shows how Edward A. Ross and Pitirim A. Sorokin became acquainted and subsequently collaborated to expand the intellectual horizons and institutional base of sociology. Their collaboration is understood as intergenerational solidari…
Social science in the crucible: The American debate over objectivity and purpose, 1918–1941; A second Chicago school?; Pitirim A. Sorokin: An intellectual biography
Sociology in the women’s annex: Inequality and integration at Harvard and Radcliffe, 1879–1947
Social Problems as Landmark Narratives: Bank of Boston, Mass Media and 'Money Laundering
The paper examines how claimsmakers selectively construct instances of alleged problems as “landmark narratives,” with particular attention to the rhetorical practices of mass print media. The analysis shows how currency reporting violations at the Bank of Boston became synonymous with “money laundering,” and how official claimsmakers exploited the case to produce a wave of similar violations, thereby creating a warrant for new policies
Sorokin and the Workings of Culturative Symbolics
Editor’s inaugural statement
Social relations undone: Disciplinary divergence and departmental politics at Harvard, 1946–1970
Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct
Foreword A New Sociology Needed The Hold of Feudalism Upon Modern Sociology The Structure of Sociological Revolutions The Lingering Influence of Greece European Outposts Versus Indigenous Sociology Weber: Some Unanswered Questions Questioning Durkheim Contradictions in Merton's Anomie and Science Models Collapse of the Old Sociology Americanizing Sociology Eastern Rites Sociology Natural, Old Sociology and Post Structuralism The Continuity of Par…
Science, politics, and moral activism: Sorokin's integralism reconsidered
This paper uses previously untranslated excerpts from P. A. Sorokin's revolutionary journalism to reexamine the relationship between his scientific and nonscientific activities. Columns written in 1917 for the political daily Volya Naroda (The People's Will) provide insight into Sorokin's early Russian period and also prefigure the later synthesis that he called Integralism. This article explains Sorokin's competing commitments to science and ref…
Thinking about Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives
Encounters with Asia: Contemporary Japan
Talcott parsons and the "far east" at Harvard, 1941-48: Comparative institutions and national policy
Theoretical and political perspectives
Recognizing early women in sociology
Movements within Sociology: Humanism
Editor’s introduction emergent fields in sociology: Terrorism
Rethinking Constructionist Agency: Claimsmakers as Conditions, Audiences, Types and Symbols
The constructionist framework for analyzing social problems rests upon the concept of “claimsmakers” who engage in definitional activities. Published researches often approach claimsmakers as agents who speak social problems into existence by naming and typifying putative conditions. This established usage fails to consider several important issues. First, claimsmakers are not merely detached interpreters but are themselves implicated in conditio…
Altruism and social solidarity: Envisioning a field of specialization
Public Sociology: Problematics, Publicity, and Possibilities
Toward A Renewed Sociology of Mass Media and Popular Culture
Celebrating A Legacy
Stratification, Partisanship and Love
Commemorating Charles Tilly
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