Research Project in Social Organization Part II.
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act II. Looking Around, Sensing the Lay of the Land. The Second World War butted up against the very slowly waining Great Depression. The military draft transported youths who had grown up in lean material environments into a world of ...
Sociological Research Project—Organization of Medical Services in a Neighborhood. Part I
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act I. Groping, I come to the edge of a research field. (This narrative is presented in three parts.)But First a Story... Tolliver found Schlep near the stalls and they walked from there toward the paddock through the disciplined ritual of ...
Blind Spot Spotted–Finally Visible in the Social Order of Sports
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Social Invention | No Comments »Blind spot: something that should be obvious is invisible. In language you define too narrowly and so omit and make invisible a fact that is glaringly present. George C. Homans, a famous Harvard sociologist, in his book "The Human Group" chuckled ...
A Pebble on the Beach. Answering the Critique
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Posted in Method, Social Science? | No Comments »If the critique of scientific sociology were a tidal wave, the answer would be a pebble still lying on the beach. I think of sociology as a useful craft. It is an established way to sort information into sensible patterns and ...
Social Science Nixed. Social What Left?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 Posted in Method, Social Science? | No Comments »Sociology is not a science. A huge disappointment. A forest of mysteries were to have been felled by this method. During its peak popularly, with the support and good will of the people, it had been an expanding balloon ...
What, Then, Is Sociology?
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, What is Sociology? | No Comments »Sociology is at the third level of mystery. Call it the constant and universal experience of the plural. It comes right after, if not parallel to, our awareness of material and life. When we attempt to describe and understand any ...