Sociological Studies on Professors in Japan

Causal Inference in Sociological Studies

Re#ections on Piaget's sociological studies

Re#ecting on Piaget's recently translated collection of sociological studies, we highlight some salient points in his approach to sociological issues. At the same time we attempt to explain the contrast between Piaget's singular in#uence in cognitive and developmental psychology with nothing comparable in empirical sociology. We believe that our own social research is a genuine continuation of ...

Studies on Echinococcosis : Ii. Echinococcosis in Japan

The Sociological Approach to Sufism in Orientalists’ Researchs Based on Their Khanqah Studies

   Due to the constant presence of mystical attitude in the individual and social conscience of Iranians, in the flowology of Iranian cultural events, the nature and functions of the school of Sufism must always analyzed. Orientalists in the study and analysis of Iranian-Islamic Sufism have used various comparative studies, approaches and research methodologies. Mysticism, from the perspective...

Sociological Studies and Philosophical Studies: Twenty Years of Controversy

Pickering (1992, p. 1) speaks of the field now commonly called sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) as "a new approach to thinking about science" that differentiated itself from contemporary philosophy and sociology of science in two ways: first, in that "scientific knowledge itself had to be understood as a social product"; and second, in that "SSK was determinedly empirical and naturalisti...