Sociology
Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in U.S. Sociology since 1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20043699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Steinmetz (0000-0002-5081-1114, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 275-323 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Politics of Method in the Human Sciences (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/9780822386889-009 |
| OpenAlex | W3112366295 |
| ISBN | 9780822386889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 677 |
Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Marxism and Sociology
Methods
MacIntyre, Managerialism, and Metatheory
How social science is impossible without critical theory
Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis
Justifying Sociological Knowledge
An Invitation to Critical Sociology
Beyond the Positivism/Non-Positivism Binary as a Step Toward Inclusive Sociology
Scientific Networks and Invisible Colleges
Violence and Narcissism
The European Social Survey and European research policy
Ethically important moments – a pragmatic-dualist research ethics
Internationalisation in US higher education
Not as natural as it seems
The infrastructure of interdisciplinarity for EU research
Sociological Research and Modernity
Consensus and the Fringe in American Archaeology
The Political Implications of Performance Management and Evidence-Based Policymaking
The Politics of Method and Its Agentic, Performative, and Ontological Others
The Paradox of Positivism
Keeping It Real
The Social Foundations of Positivism
Fordism and Positivism in U.S. Sociology
Metaphors at work
The Grudging Modernizer
Vergleichende Soziologie, kritischer Realismus und Reflexivität
American Sociology in A “De-Civilizing” Moment
Epistemology Contextualized
The role of scientific knowledge in dealing with complex policy problems under conditions of uncertainty
A new traditional theory
Justifying Sociological Knowledge
Decolonizing the Civil Sphere
Hannah Arendt, Sociology and Political Modernity
Situational analysis as a framework for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences
The Disorganization of America
A Liberal Leviathan
Critical Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Imagination
Social Fields, Subfields and Social Spaces at the Scale of Empires
Styles of Sociological Thought
Ideas in Exile
Social fields, subfields and social spaces at the scale of empires
"Cutting Off the Branch on Which We Are Sitting? On Postpositivism, Value Neutrality, and the "Bias Paradox
Sociology after Fordism
Theory and Contrastive Explanation in Ethnography
The Meaning of 'Theory
Getting real
Power and society
The strategy of rhetoric
Anthropology & the colonial encounter
Political Order in Changing Societies
Language, truth and logic
From Locke to Saussure
Women, minorities, and employment discrimination
Experience and prediction
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The general theory of employment, interest, and money
The strategy of social protest
Social Capital and Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building)
Science in action
Three sociological traditions
Readings in Russian poetics
Studies of the modern world-system
The scope and method of political economy
Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution
Beyond Tocqueville
The social meaning of money
Language and materialism
French Sociology
The Dynamics of social movements
The crisis of German ideology
The languages of Paradise
The third way
Essays in positive economics
The language of social research
What Is a Case?
Anthropology today
Higher superstition
The theory of political coalitions.
The second industrial divide
Civil Society
Changing order
The Oriental renaissance
Land, labour, and economic discourse
Foundations of sociology
Les Positivismes. Philosophie, Sociologie, Histoire, Sciences
Volksgeist as Method and Ethic
Sociology and Organization Theory
Writing Culture
The Nationalization of the Social Sciences
Sociological Explanation
Gender
Religion and Sexuality
A Note on Science and Democracy?
Trade and Market in the Early Empires
The impossible science
Social Stratification in Science
The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences
Schools of Thought
Theoretical Methods in Social History
The Manufacture of Knowledge
Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions
That Noble Dream
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Partners in Science
Science as Practice and Culture
More Heat than Light
Dissolution
Curious Land
Science and Technology in a Multicultural World
The History of Econometric Ideas
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?
Economics and Reality
Making Social Science Matter
The Network Inside Out
The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
Postindustrial Possibilities
Manufacturing Consent
Institutions in Economics
The Rational Peasant
Course in General Linguistics
Splintering Urbanism
Reflection without Rules
Post‐Fordism
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics
The System of Professions
Breakdown of Will
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
The Struggle over the Soul of Economics
Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences
Economics and Sociology
The Translator's Invisibility
Stabilizing Dynamics
A Perilous Progress
The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
The Philosophy of Social Science
Siting Translation
Emerging Agendas and Recurrent Strategies in Historical Sociology
The meaning of ‘meaning’
A plea for mechanisms
Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal
Searching for a New Institutional Fix
Credible worlds
Self-interpreting animals
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Prospect Theory
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |