Titlebook: Sociology and Statistics in Britain, 1833–1979; Plamena Panayotova Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclus

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The Intellectual Landscape in British Sociology, ca. 1930s–1970sd by an interest in sociological theory relevant to the contemporary problems British society was facing (in contrast to the abstract and historically broad theoretical approach of the previous generation of sociologists). The British empirical tradition in social research, which existed in parallel

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The Changing Face of an Expanding Sociologyintellectually, in relative obscurity and which had struggled to define itself and prove its potential, suddenly rise in the 1960s to become one of the most attractive academic subjects? This chapter explains how sociology used its own weaknesses to take better advantage than other subjects of the o

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The Intellectual Landscape in British Sociology, ca. 1930s–1970sempirical research and quantitative methods being portrayed as a fruitless path for the future development of British sociology and a distraction from what ought to be the priority—theoretical research.

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ines the history of sociology from a novel perspective; withAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain stood at the forefront of science and statistics and had a long and respected tradition of social investigation and reform. But it still did not yet have a ‘science of society.’ When, in th