Looking back over the last 60 years of sociology in the UK, this book addresses the question of progress in the discipline. Campbell's critical and autobiographical reflections offer fresh insights into the history of sociology, and engages with the notion of academic reputation, how it is measured, and what it can tell us about scholarly progress.
Has Sociology Progressed? will be of special interest to all sociologists and would-be sociologists interested in the past, present and future of their discipline, as well as scholars contemplating academic progress and motivation in general.
1. Who Now Reads Ginsberg?.- 2. 'Sociologists Eat Each Other'.- 3. Sociological Groundhog Day.- 4. Slash and Burn Sociology.- 5. The Death of Scholarship.- 6. The Collapse of the Ivory Tower.- 7. Sociology as 'Just an Academic Pursuit'.- 8. Sociological Turn-taking.- 9. Sociology, A Work in Progress?
Colin Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. His previous books include
The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (2018),
The Easternization of The West (2007), and
The Myth of Social Action (1996).
This book advances a bold assessment and critique of the state of sociology today. Campbell takes the discipline to task for denigrating the value of scholarship by prioritising ever narrower and more specialised research interests and agendas. What is needed instead, he claims, is for sociology to return to its core concerns by building bridges between theory and research findings in the search for explanations. This powerful argument goes against the grain of most current sociological thinking, and deserves close attention from academics across the social sciences. Nicholas Gl“"
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