Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

I offer a discussion of the criminological sociology of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936). While Tönnies is generally well known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, his elaborate contributions to the sociological study of crime have been almost entirely neglected in the history of sociology. Situated within Tönnies’ general theoretical perspective, I present the central themes of Tönni...

Abstract Recent years have seen a proliferation of publications reconsidering the emergence sociology in France. The present review discusses and compares three these works: S. Mosbah-Natanson’s bibliometric study on fashion around 1900 ( 2017a ); Th. Hirsch’s history idea social time from Durkheimians to Les Annales 2016a M. Joly’s enquiry into purported sociological revolution France Germany ...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individua...

Although social structure might seem the most important concept in sociology, and one of the major concepts in social science more generally, it is something of an ‘absent presence’ with many theorists addressing the issue only tangentially and with sustained attention to conceptual understanding of the nature of social structures attended to by only relatively few authors (Crothers, 1996). The...