Premium
Masters and milieus: Transmitting the history of sociology
Author(s) -
O'Rand Angela M.
Publication year - 1982
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(198207)18:3<272::aid-jhbs2300180309>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - parade , sociology , construct (python library) , sociology of knowledge , epistemology , historical sociology , history of sociology , sociological imagination , sociology of education , social science , social history (medicine) , art history , history , philosophy , computer science , programming language , medicine , surgery
The history of sociology is usually transmitted as a biographical parade of the „masters” and their knowledge claims through time. This approach tends to portray the sociological enterprise as cumulative with empirical‐analytic rather than historical‐hermeneutic or critical features and often fails to convey the „sociological imagination” to the student. Another approach to the history of sociology, one emphasizing history as method rather than history as theory, directly exposes the student to historical materials placing the masters in their milieus and encourages the student to construct sociology from these materials. The second approach is described using three exercises in the „Sociology of, for , and in the South.”.