Viewpoint: Why Bother with Durkheim? Teaching Sociology in the 1990s
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 45 (1) , 122-146
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00057
Abstract
Mark: That's the down side of setting up a grand narrative of sociology, people read the books when they're thirty, become professors of sociology and then do about one book every five years … ‘What should we mean by the “classics of sociology”? Does the term “classical social theory” have some real force, or is it just a vague label of convenience? And are “classics” the same as “founders”?’ (Giddens, 1995: 4). Ashfaq: People are saying, some close friends of mine who I meet regularly, they say to me that the western disciplines, western education of social sciences, the whole framework which they follow is a non-starter for us and the whole thing has to change, change the rules of the game, goalposts … you name it.Keywords
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