Rules and Laws in Sociology

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60577-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’. The author argues that such notions are essentially dependent on the social policy adopted, and that their common misuse by sociologists reflects a deeper confusion – that between the sociologist’s search for social rules and regularities, and their search for social laws. The book clarifies the complex and important relationships between a scientific interest in the rule-oriented behaviour of people and a scientific interest in social laws about that behaviour. It explains how and why so many sociological inquiries lead to the discovery of mere social practices rather than social laws.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Definitions 2. Properties 3. Generalizations 4. Explanations.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Brown was a former editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1973-1977) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia.