SOME OTHER HELPFUL
RESOURCES
Books
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Berger, Bennett, ed. 1990.
Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual
Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Halliday, Terence C. and
Morris Janowitz, eds. 1992. Sociology and Its
Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary
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Press.
Hammond, Phillip, ed. 1967.
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Horowitz, Irving Louis. 1969.
Sociological Self-Images: A Collective Portrait.
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Riley, M. W., ed. 1988.
Sociological Lives. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Other Readings
Collins,
R. 1989. “Sociology: ProScience or AntiScience.”
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Etzioni, Amitai. 2003. “A
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Kemper, Theodore D. 2000.
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Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000.
Plus Letters to the Editor, September 22, 2000.
Lechner, French. 1990.
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Mills, C. Wright. 1959. “On
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Odell, P.M., Korgen, K.O., and
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Sociological Forum. 1994.
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Journals
The
American Sociologist. This journal is
entirely devoted to various aspects of the
sociological profession.
Annual
Review of Sociology. This research annual
includes intellectual auto-biographies of
leading scholars in the field as the first
article in many of its issues. Available online.
Teaching
Sociology. A journal devoted to the teaching
of our discipline.
