Practice and Progress

Introduction Part I: Intellectual Debates and Institutional Contexts 1. Professionalism in British Sociology 2. Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices and Virtues 3. Oxbridge Sociology: The Development of Centres of Excellence 4. The Collapse of British Sociology Part II: Sociological Knowledge: Creation and Practice 5. The Social Construction of ‘Positivism’ and its Significance in British Sociology, 1950-80 6. The Anti-Quantitative Bias in Post-war British Sociology 7. Towards a Rehabilitation of Data 8. W(h)ither Sociological Methodology?: Generalisation and Comparative Method 9. Sociological Practice and Language Part III: Marxism and Feminsim: Radical Interventions in Sociology 10. Sociologies and Marxisms: the Odd Couples 11. The Division of Labour Revisited or Overcoming the Two Adams Bibliography Index