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Paradigmatic shifts, indigenization, and the development of sociology in Canada
Author(s) -
Hiller Harry H.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198007)16:3<263::aid-jhbs2300160307>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - indigenization , sociology , periodization , ideology , discipline , social science , historical sociology , epistemology , anthropology , political science , politics , law , philosophy , archaeology , history
Three contextual models of disciplinary development (institutional, ideological congruence, and intradisciplinary) are employed to explain the history of sociology in Canada. A fourth dependency model is added to show how the national disciplinary community has been greatly influenced by paradigms and approaches to sociology emphasized in other countries. A fourfold periodization of the historical development of sociology in Canada is sketched which includes two cycles of paradigmatic emulation and reactionism which have in turn predisposed Canadian sociology to indigenizing efforts and macrosociological questions.