Toward an American Sociology

GORDON D. MORGAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. He has studied sociology for over forty years concentrating on ghettos, educational sociology, prisons, the Caribbean, and Africa.

• Foreword A New Sociology Needed The Hold of Feudalism Upon Modern Sociology The Structure of Sociological Revolutions The Lingering Influence of Greece European Outposts Versus Indigenous Sociology Weber: Some Unanswered Questions Questioning Durkheim Contradictions in Merton's Anomie and Science Models Collapse of the Old Sociology Americanizing Sociology Eastern Rites Sociology Natural, Old Sociology and Post Structuralism The Continuity of Paradigms Modernism and Postmodernism in Sociology Technicism, Conservatism, and the Curriculum: The Loser Sociology Dethroning the Old Gods Vernacular Sociology European Sociology in the American Context The Decline of Victorianism: A Walk Through the Twentieth Century Twenty-First Century Sociology Sociography Afterword Bibliography Subject Index Name Index