the great tree of sociology
On FB, Dan H posted this nice image of the lineage of sociology depicted as a family tree. The image was created by the staff at Norton.
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OK, I have to register a complaint: how can they depict Weber as having no descendants?!?!?
andy
February 15, 2012 at 1:14 am
I’m being trolled by a picture of a tree. I need to get off the Internet.
Kieran
February 15, 2012 at 1:49 am
Can we start a thread on the Linsanity and/or Lincredible using our sociological imagination? It looks like people are a bit of out of touch….
SocSports
February 15, 2012 at 2:50 am
If I actually thought that Nancy Chodorow and Jean Baudrillard had even a tenth the influence on sociology as did Paul Lazarsfeld, Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Berger, or Herb Simon, I’d immediately start trying to position myself to go on the job market as a political scientist or economist.
gabrielrossman
February 15, 2012 at 5:45 am
I think this is sociology according to the world of social theory texts aimed at undergrads. Not what actually happens in sociology.
fabiorojas
February 15, 2012 at 5:58 am
[...] Ok, you asked for it… the Linsanity post. [...]
the linsantiy post « orgtheory.net
February 15, 2012 at 6:11 am
Fabio,
Exactly, it is how we teach social theory and not what happens in sociology. Moreover, it’s a problem that our undergraduate pedagogy is so loosely coupled (and inferior) to what we really do. I don’t blame Norton for this but ourselves for letting our theory curriculum drift into a ghetto for luftmenschen. Ideally I’d like a theory curriculum based on stuff that’s relevant to active research agendas (eg, Social Construction of Reality, Field of Cultural Production, Social Structures, Economic Lives, and “Garbage Can Model”) but if I have to choose between a bunch of MLA horseshit and simply deprecating theory from core curriculum to an elective, I’ll absolutely take the latter.
gabrielrossman
February 15, 2012 at 7:25 am
are y’all looking at a bigger version that i can’t get somehow? i didn’t even grade papers this week and i can barely make out those names.
auderey
February 15, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Too small.
thezeus18
February 15, 2012 at 2:16 pm
I’m not sure undergraduate theory should match the research that academic sociologists do. For those that aren’t going to be sociologists, it makes sense to focus on the social theories that will be most relevant to them.
Philip Cohen
February 15, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Phil,
I’m not sure if this kind of theory is “relevant” to students either. Your experience may be different, but in my department students often delay taking contemporary theory as long as possible.
gabrielrossman
February 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm
For those that aren’t going to be sociologists, it makes sense to focus on the social theories that will be most relevant to them.
I am too blind to read most of the image (or maybe I am just too closed-minded), but I don’t see how Baudrillard or Derrida will be relevant to the vast majority of undergraduates.
Trey
February 15, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Theory as a thing that you do is different from theory as a thing that you memorize. When we teach undergraduates, we seem to teach them the latter. It’s like if we taught methods only by having them read articles representing methodological greatness but never had them try out any of the methods. I think the approach we have to teaching theory is valuable, but perhaps the course ought to be called “The History of Sociological Thought.”
Mikaila
February 15, 2012 at 8:17 pm