Values, Politics and Science: The Influence of Social Movements on Sociology, Other Directed Rebels
Author(s)
Imber, Jonathan B.
Abstract
There is concern among academics about the future of sociology as an academic discipline. The early history and development of sociology has been ignored. Idealism of sociologists in the 1960s has developed into orthodoxy. Critics initially perceived sociology as a type of social work, or as the domain of socialists. There has been resistance to using ideas from natural science in social science, while postmodernism has been criticised for moving sociology toward cultural studies.