Eigen-Mechanism and the History of Sociology

Author(s) : Salvino A. Salvaggio & Paolo Barbesino

Bibliographic details : Proceedings of the Congress of History of Sociology, Amsterdam

Date of Publication : 1996

Executive summary : The starting question of this puzzling over which we tried to make clear in the title of our talk is the following one: why do sociologists, when they write the history of sociology, forget that they are sociologists ? In other words, how can we explain the very peculiar fact that sociologists do not usually use the concepts of sociology when they re-read sociology ?

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