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The Summer‐Porter Controversy at Yale: Pre‐Paradigmatic Sociology and Institutional Crisis *
Author(s) -
HEYL John D.,
HEYL Barbara S.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1976.tb00747.x
Subject(s) - explication , sociology , discipline , epistemology , social science , positive economics , philosophy , economics
This reappraisal of the dispute between William Graham Sumner and Noah Porter at Yale (1879‐1881) emphasizes the conjunction of disciplinary unxieties (over the academic establishment of sociology) and institutional crisis (over Yale's classical curriculum). Theoretical implications are developed through further explication of Thomas Kuhn's notion of “pre‐paradigmatic” science.