Depuis que la sociologie s’est édifiée en discipline, la question de l’articulation entre pensée empirique et pensée normative – entre faits et valeurs – y occupe une place à la fois centrale et problématique. La multiplicité et la diversité des « ontologies » semblent en effet n’avoir offert aucune perspective totalement satisfaisante, laissant cette question en suspens. D’Émile Durkheim à Max Weber, Andrew Abbott revisite les théories classiques qui se sont construites en réaction au dua...

In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical stu...

Andrew Abbott, einer der wichtigsten Sozialtheoretiker der Gegenwart, unterzieht Texte von Karl Marx und Max Weber einer kritischen Re-Lektüre – mit überraschenden Einsichten.Marx sieht die Gegenwart, so Abbotts Lesart, nur durch Kräfte der Vergangenheit bestimmt. Wollen wir die Gegenwart verstehen, brauchen wir jedoch beides. Vergangenes und Zukünftiges ist im konkreten Handeln miteinander verwoben. Weber hingegen begreife Wissenschaft als vergangenheitsorientiert und Politik als z...

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School ...

"Shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read . . . a boon for students." —Robert J. Sampson, professor of the social sciences at Harvard UniversityToday's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the p...

"Dear Colleagues: I send you greetings from Hyde Park, where the one hundred and twentysecond Autumn Quarter of University of Chicago is right now at its midpoint. The students are hurrying through the quadrangles; the University Libraries are packed with faces worried about midterm examinations; the faculty are frowning at computer screens filled with a thousand things scholarly and unscholarly."

Eine zeitgemäße Sozialforschung sollte prozessual angelegt sein, argumentiert der US-amerikanische Soziologe Andrew Abbott. Damit vertritt er einen radikal anderen Blickwinkel auf die soziale Welt als in den Sozialwissenschaften üblich. Nicht die Stabilität gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse ist der Normalfall, sondern ihr Wandel. Nicht die kontinuierliche Veränderung sozialer Strukturen und kultureller Deutungen ist erklärungsbedürftig, sondern ihre Konstanz. Nicht die Modellierung sozialer ...

The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis:" programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as many syntheses as synthesizers. This volume considers an...

Riflettendo sulla “Scuola” di sociologia di Chicago ANDREA BIXIO, RAFFAELE RAUTY Premessa RAFFAELE RAUTY Sociologi a Chicago, una “Scuola”, una comunità scientifica ALESSANDRA LORINI Percorsi dell’America progressista tra Otto e Novecento JEAN-MICHEL CHAPOULIE La tradition de Chicago et la recherche actuelle en sciences sociales VINCENZO ROMANIA William Isaac Thomas: profilo intellettuale di un classico della storia del pensiero sociologico MAURIZIO MERICO Giovani e processi educativi nell...

In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe—from India, Brazil, and China to...

How do you rediscover what makes you you in a world where AI can replicate everything you do?In AI and the Art of Being Human, leading experts Jeffrey Abbott and Andrew Maynard explore how to embrace your full humanity at a time when machines are increasingly able to mirror your every move. Blending storytelling and practical insight while drawing on their own work and experiences, they reveal what becomes possible when technology reflects who we ...

An irreverent take on the political life and times of Australia's twenty eighth prime minister, detailing a litany of questionable calls, miraculous blunders, and inexplicable mistakes.In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd years. But then... Well...Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litany o...