Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations
Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Troy Duster (0009-0003-3107-191X, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000312240607100101 |
| OpenAlex | W1986093314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 38 |
Sociology faces three important interrelated challenges in the coming decades. The first will be the increasing authority of reductionist science for which partial evidence is found in the strikingly imbalanced allocation of research funding for "causes" of wide-ranging problems-from disparities in health and educational achievement to explanations of alcoholism and violence. The second is the attendant expansion of databases on markers and processes "inside the body." Directly but inversely related is the third challenge: new evidence that the release of already collected data sets is blocked and data collection on social and economic forces is reduced. These challenges can be confronted and addressed directly if sociologists emulate an earlier generation of sociological researchers and turn greater attention to an analysis of data collection at the site of reductionist knowledge production. This includes, for example, close scrutiny of new computer technologies assisting several DNA identification claims. It is insufficient to simply assert the arbitrariness of the "social construction" of these claims. Instead, the architecture of that construction must be demonstrated. Unless that is done, competing explanations (from various disciplines) will have far greater significance on public policy and on the particular discipline's status with public and private funding sources
Arbitrariness · Biology · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Political science · Reductionism · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Law · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Race, Genetics, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |