Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2008, 44(5): 943-968 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2008.44.5.05

Nenaplněný příslib sociologické teorie: vzestup a pád americké sociologie ve druhé polovině dvacátého století [The Unfulfilled Promise of Sociological Theory: The Rise and Fall of American Sociology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century]

Jan Balon
Filosofický ústav AV ČR, Praha
Fakulta sociálních věd UK, Praha

Published: October 1, 2008Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Balon, J. (2008). Nenaplněný příslib sociologické teorie: vzestup a pád americké sociologie ve druhé polovině dvacátého století [The Unfulfilled Promise of Sociological Theory: The Rise and Fall of American Sociology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century]. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 44(5), 943-968. doi: 10.13060/00380288.2008.44.5.05.
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. Alexander, J. C. 1982, 1983. Theoretical Logic in Sociology. 4 díly. Berkeley: University of California Press.
    2. Alexander, J. C. 1984. "The Parsons Revival in German Sociology." Sociological Theory 2: 394-412. Go to original source...
    3. Alexander, J. C. 1987. Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press. Go to original source...
    4. Alexander, J. C. 1991. "Sociological Theory and the Claim to Reason: Why the End is Not in Sight." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 147-153. Go to original source...
    5. Alexander, J. C. 1995. Fin de Siècle Social Theory. London: Verso.
    6. Alexander, J. C., P. Colomy. 1992. "Traditions and Competitions: Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cummulation." Pp. 27-53 in G. Ritzer (ed.). Metatheorizing. London: Sage.
    7. Antonio, R. J. 1991. "Postmodern Storytelling Versus Pragmatist Truth-Seeking: The Discursive Base of Social Theory." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 154-163. Go to original source...
    8. Atkinson, D. 1972. Orthodox Consensus and Radical Alternative. London: Heinemann.
    9. Aya, R. 1982. "The Theory Behind 'Theory and Society'." Theory and Society 11 (6): 907-913. Go to original source...
    10. Balon, J. 2004. "Koncept jednání v sociologické teorii: zdánlivě bezútěšný příběh jednoho pojmu." Teorie vědy 26 (4): 15-37.
    11. Balon, J. 2007. Sociologická teorie: Příběh krize a fragmentace - projekt obnovy a rekonstrukce. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství.
    12. Baltzell, E. D. 1972. "To be a Phoenix-Reflections on Two Noisy Ages of Prose." American Journal of Sociology 78 (1): 202-220. Go to original source...
    13. Bell, D. 1960. The End of Ideology: The Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties. New York: Free Press.
    14. Ben-David, J. 1978. "Emergence of National Traditions in the Sociology of Science." Sociological Inquiry 48 (3-4): 197-219. Go to original source...
    15. Berger, J., D. Willer, M. Zelditch. 2005. "Theory Programs and Theoretical Problems." Sociological Theory 23 (2): 127-155. Go to original source...
    16. Bershady, H. J. 1973. Ideology and Social Knowledge. New York: Wiley.
    17. Bloom, A. 1987. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    18. Boggard, W. 1992. "Postmodernism One Last Time." Sociological Theory 10 (2): 241-243. Go to original source...
    19. Bourdieu, P. 1988a. Homo Academicus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    20. Bourdieu, P. 1988b. "Vive la Crise!: For Heterodoxy in Social Science." Theory and Society 17 (5): 773-787. Go to original source...
    21. Burawoy, M. 2005. "For Public Sociology." American Sociological Review 70 (1): 2-28. Go to original source...
    22. Calhoun, C. 1992. "Sociology, Other Disciplines and the Project of a General Understanding of Social Life." Pp. 137-197 in T. C. Halliday, M. Janowitz (eds.). Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    23. Calhoun, C. (ed.). 2007. Sociology in America: A History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
    24. Camic, C., N. Gross. 1998. "Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility." Annual Review of Sociology 24: 453-476. Go to original source...
    25. Cole, S. 1994. "What´s Wrong With Sociology?" Sociological Forum 9 (2): 129-131. Go to original source...
    26. Collins, R. 1985. "Jeffrey Alexander and the Search for Multi-dimensional Theory." Theory and Society 14 (6): 877-892. Go to original source...
    27. Collins, R. 1986. "Is 1980s Sociology in the Doldrums?" American Journal of Sociology 91 (6): 1336-55. Go to original source...
    28. Collins, R. 1990. "The Organizational Politics of the ASA." American Sociologist 21: 311. Go to original source...
    29. Crane, D., H. Small. 1992. "American Sociology Since the Seventies: the Emerging Identity Crisis in the Discipline." Pp. 197-235 in T. C. Halliday, M. Janowitz (eds.). Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    30. D'Antonio, W. V. 1992. "Recruting Sociologists in a Time of Changing Opportunities." Pp. 99-137 in T. C. Halliday, M. Janowitz (eds.). Sociology and its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    31. Davis, J. 1994. "What's Wrong With Sociology?" Sociological Forum 9 (2): 179-197. Go to original source...
    32. Fish, S. 1989. Doing What Comes Naturally. Oxford: Clarendon. Go to original source...
    33. Friedrichs, R. W. 1970. The Sociology of Sociology. New York: Collier-Macmillan.
    34. Gouldner, A. W. 1970. The Coming Crisis Of Western Sociology. New York: Basic Books. Go to original source...
    35. Gouldner, A. W. 1971. "Sociology Does Not Need a Karl Marx or an Isaac Newton; It Needs a Lenin." Psychology Today 5: 53-57.
    36. Gouldner, A. W. 1973. For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today. London: Allen Lane.
    37. Gouldner, A. W. 1974. "Toward the New Objectivity: An Introduction to Theory and Society." Theory and Society 1 (1): i-v. Go to original source...
    38. Gouldner, A. W. 2004. "Anti-minotaurus: mýtus sociologie oproštěné od hodnocení." Teorie vědy 26 (4): 85-105.
    39. Habermas, J. 1981. "Talcott Parsons: Problems of Theory Construction." Sociological Inquiry 51 (3): 173-196. Go to original source...
    40. Holmwood, J. 1996a. Founding Sociology: Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory. New York: Longman.
    41. Holmwood, J. 1996b. "Abject Theory." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 32 (2): 87-108.
    42. Holmwood, J., A. Stewart. 1994. "Synthesis and Fragmentation in Social Theory: A Progressive Solution." Sociological Theory 12 (1): 83-100. Go to original source...
    43. Horowitz, I. L. 1994. The Decomposition of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press.
    44. Janowitz, M. 1970. Political Conflict. Chicago: Quadrangle.
    45. Janowitz, M. 1972. "Professionalization of Sociology." The American Journal of Sociology 78 (1): 105-135. Go to original source...
    46. Kuhn, T. S. 1997. Struktura vědeckých revolucí. Praha: Oikoymenh.
    47. Lemert, Ch. 1991. "The End of Ideology, Really." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 164-172. Go to original source...
    48. Levine, D. N. 1995. Visions of the Sociological Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    49. Lipset, S. M. 1994. "The State of American Sociology." Sociological Forum 9 (2): 199-220. Go to original source...
    50. Lipset, S. M., E. C. Ladd. 1972. "The Politics of American Sociologists." American Journal of Sociology 78 (1): 67-104. Go to original source...
    51. Merton, R. K. 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press.
    52. Merton, R. K. 2000. Studie ze sociologické teorie. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství.
    53. Mills, C. W. 2002. Sociologická imaginace. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství.
    54. Mullins, N. C. 1983. "Theories and Theory Groups Revisited." Sociological Theory 1: 319-337. Go to original source...
    55. Münch, R. 1991. "American and European Social Theory." Sociological Perspectives 34 (3): 313-335. Go to original source...
    56. Oberschall, A. 1972. "The Institutionalization of American Sociology." Pp. 187-251 in A. Oberschall (ed.). The Establishment of Empirical Sociology: Studies in Continuity, Discontinuity, and Institutionalization. New York: Harper & Row.
    57. Parsons, T. 1937. The Structure of Social Action. New York: McGraw-Hill.
    58. Parsons, T. 1948. "The Position of Sociological Theory."American Sociological Review 13 (2): 156-171. Go to original source...
    59. Parsons, T. 1950. "The Prospects of Sociological Theory." American Sociological Review 15 (1): 3-16. Go to original source...
    60. Parsons, T. 1951. The Social System. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    61. Parsons, T. 1954. Essays in Sociological Theory. New York: Free Press.
    62. Parsons, T. 1959. "Some Problems Confronting Sociology as a Profession." American Sociological Review 24 (4): 547-569.
    63. Rhoades, L. J. 1981. A History of the American Sociological Association, 1905-80. Washington, D. C.: ASA.
    64. Richardson, L. 1990. Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences. Newbury Park: Sage.
    65. Richardson, L. 1991. "Postmodern Social Theory: Representational Practices." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 173-179. Go to original source...
    66. Rorty, R. 1978. "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing. An Essay on Derrida." New Literary History 10 (1): 141-160. Go to original source...
    67. Seidman, S. 1991a. "The End of Sociological Theory: The Postmodern Hope." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 131-146. Go to original source...
    68. Seidman, S. 1991b. "Postmodern Anxiety: The Politics of Epistemology." Sociological Theory 9 (2): 180-190. Go to original source...
    69. Seidman, S. 1994. Contested Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
    70. Seidman, S., D. G. Wagner (eds.). 1992. Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate Over General Theory. Cambridge, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    71. Seidman, S. et al. 1995. The Postmodern Turn: New Perpectives on Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to original source...
    72. Sibley, E. 1963. The Education of Sociologists in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
    73. Sica, A. 1983. "Parsons, Jr." American Journal of Sociology 89 (1): 200-219. Go to original source...
    74. Stinchcombe, A. L. 1994. "Disintegrated Disciplines and the Future of Sociology." Sociological Forum 9 (2): 279-291. Go to original source...
    75. Tiryakian, E. A. (ed.). 1971. The Phenomenon of Sociology. New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts.
    76. Turner, J. H. 2006. "American Sociology in Chaos: Differentiation without Integration." The American Sociologist 37 (2): 15-29. Go to original source...
    77. Turner, J. H., A. Maryanski. 1988. "Is, Neofunctionalism' Really Functional?" Sociological Theory 6 (1): 110-121. Go to original source...
    78. Turner, J. H., S. P. Turner. 1990. The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology. Newbury Park: Sage.
    79. Turner, S. P. 2000. "Disciplinarity and Its Other." Pp. 46-65 in P. Weingart, N. Stehr (eds.). Practising Interdisciplinarity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Go to original source...
    80. Turner, S. P. 2004. "The Maturity of Social Theory." Pp. 141-171 in Ch. Camic, H. Joas (eds.). The Dialogical Turn. New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age. New York: Rowman, Littlefield.
    81. Wiley, N. 1979. "The Rise and Fall of Dominating Theories in American Sociology." Pp. 71-75 in W. Snizek et al. Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research. Westport: Greenwood Press.
    82. Wiley, N. 1985. "The Current Interregnum in American Sociology." Social Research 52 (1): 179-207.
    83. Wolfe, A. 1991. America at Century's End. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.
    84. Wolfe, A. 1992. "Weak Sociology/Strong Sociologists: Consequences and Contradictions of a Field in Turmoil." Social Research 59 (4): 759-779.
    85. Wrong, D. 1993. "The Present Condition of American Sociology." Comparative Studies in Society and History 35 (1): 183-196. Go to original source...

    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


    Return to the content