Shimmei's 'History of Sociology' and Sociological Thought

Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory

Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision

This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s. In the meantime, the use of visual methods in ethnographic description, the study of social processes ...

The Historical Development of Sociology: Sociological Traditions

A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology

US sociology has been historically segregated in that, at least until the 1960s, there were two distinct institutionally organized traditions of sociological thought - one black and one white. For the most part, however, dominant historiographies have been silent on that segregation and, at best, reproduce it when addressing the US sociological tradition. This is evident in the rarity with whic...

Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together

I was giving a talk about communication networks and social networks at the Sunbelt Social Network conference. This was well before the Internet. No one cared about this except for this rather big, red-headed guy who was leaning forward with interest, nodding and frowning as I went on. I immediately knew that he would be Questioner #1. I was right. Rob eagerly asked good, sharp questions about ...