Sociology in the 1990s.

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    • Subject Terms:
      SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL problems; SOCIOLOGISTS; HISTORY; SOCIAL sciences
    • Abstract:
      This article discusses the fragmentation of sociology in the 1990s. Despite its struggles for logical coherence, intellectually sociology has always had an ad hoc character. Coming late to the academic table, it got the scraps, those forms of collective action not already taken over by earlier arrivals. History commanded the past and anthropology non-western exotica. Psychology had the individual, economics the market, and political science the state. Sociology got what was left: the family, crime, immigration, race and all the other topics conceived of at the time as social problems. Because there were so few sociologists, they had to make common cause in the academic arena. So, whatever the differences in the actual subject matter, they looked for common themes.