tructuralism and network analysis have a long and distinguished history in communication and the social sciences. Spencer (1982) and Durkheim (1964) in sociology, Radcliff-Brown (1959) in anthropology, Piaget (1971) in cognitive development, and de Saussure (1966) in linguistics all pioneered structuralism in their respective fields. Monge and Eisenberg (1987) trace the history of organizational

Building on Fox Keller’s acute genealogy of the nature–nurture opposition as located in a certain specific social, cultural, and political history in the late nineteenth century (2010), in this paper, I address a parallel problem: the making of a really modern (i.e., non-biological) sociology nearly at the same time as the “hard disjunction” (Keller, 2010) between heredity and the environment, ...

this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...

The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on the then newfangled statistical physics and also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.

The recent development of child guidance clinics and behavior research centers presents students of human nature and social relations with new opportunities and new problems. The history of science seems to demonstrate that whenever a body of theoretical knowledge becomes oriented and useful with reference to a concrete human problem a period of rapid development ensues. The evidence for such a...