The Form of Sociology

The intellectual and cultural background of the development of modern sociology; The first two stages of institutionalization: forerunners and founding fathers; The emergence of a distinctive sociological tradition; The development of socioalogical theory: the major types of explicative paradigms; Sociology between the wars; Trends in sociological analysis and activity after world war II; The emergence of the structural-functional model as the focus of theoritical discussion; The major analytic controversies about the structural-functional model: the main "counter-models"; The major metascientific controversies; Major analytic developments and openings; The broadening of the sociological tradition and the outcry in sociology; The development of sociological analysis, crises in sociology, and the structure of the sociological community; The broadening of the sociological tradition: some preliminary indications.