Why sociology doesn't make progress like the natural sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12136115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cole (0000-0002-3199-7486, Stony Brook University, corresponding author), Stephen Cole |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-154 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-8971 • E-ISSN: 1573-7861 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf01476359 |
| OpenAlex | W2050378530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 35 |
Biology · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Natural science · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
The Production of Knowledge
“Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences
Exploratory Research
Is there a gender-based fragmentation of communication science? An investigation of the reasons for the apparent gender homophily in citations
Merton and Kuhn
Against Grand Theories
University teaching in “hard” and “soft” sciences
Sociology as a Population Science
Normativität und Wertneutralität
Human-computer interaction and sociological insight
Theory Programs and Theoretical Problems
Progress and cumulation in the human sciences after the fall
Straight from the source
Een Eeuwige Jeugd
Debunking
A Canadian rejoinder
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science
Re-conceptualizing (environmental) sociology
Social Problems
Three Faces of Explanation
Normative Cumulation
Does the death of the sociology of deviance claim make sense
Disciplinary knowledge revisited
Probleme von Begriffsbildung und -verwendung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Toward an Autonomous Sociological Practice Occupation
On disciplinary judgement
On the Desirability and Possibility of a Positive Sociology
Towards a judgement‐based statistical analysis
A discipline in peril
The integral paradigm
Can sociology be a science
Occupational feminization, occupational decline? Sociology’s changing sex composition
The Significance of Method
What Matters in Sociology
In the shadow of sociology
Psychology
Methodological Memes and Mores
All That Is Solid
The Joy of Science
Conceptual structure and the growth of scientific knowledge
They Are All 'Doing Gender' but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
Prospects for Distributive Justice Theory
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution
The social basis of scientific discoveries
Changing order
Explaining Science
Dynamics of Organizational Populations
Organizational Ecology
The structure of scientific revolutions
Constructing social theories
Social behavior
The pasteurization of France
Making It Count
The Idea of Social Structure
Why fewer women become physicians
The American Soldier-An Expository Review
Patterns of evaluation in science
Science and Values
The Logic of Science in Sociology
Principles of Scientific Sociology
States and Social Revolutions
The Unionization of Teachers
The Manufacture of Knowledge
A General Theory of Gender Stratification
Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks
Theory Choice and Problem Choice in Science
Sex Discrimination and Admission to Medical School, 1929-1984
The Hierarchy of the Sciences
States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,35 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |