Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct

by Gordon Morgan

Overview

The theories behind contemporary sociology were imported from Europe and first taught in American colleges in the late 1880s. Rooted in the soil of late feudal society, the received theories of current academic sociology simply cannot flourish in the democratic environment of modern America. This volume represents the author's effort to rethink the way sociologists approach both their discipline and the study of society and culture in the United States. The end product of this exercise is a distinctly American sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275949990
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/18/1997
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

GORDON D. MORGAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. He has studied sociology for over forty years concentrating on ghettos, educational sociology, prisons, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Table of Contents

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 Paradigms
Modernism and Postmodernism in Sociology
Technicism, Conservatism, and the Curriculum: The Loser Sociology
Dethroning the Old Gods
Vernacular Sociology
European Sociology in the American Context
The Decline of Victorianism: A Walk Through the Twentieth Century
Twenty-First Century Sociology
Sociography
Afterword
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index