Sociology in a new key: Essays in social theory and aesthetics

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Notes

1 Gouldner (1973, p. 19) refers, for example, to the ‘dominant drift in American sociology [being] toward professionalization, the growth of technical specialists, toward the diffusion of the value-free outlook’. The advent of the ‘cultural turn’, the impact of postmodern social theory, and the recent popularity of ‘public sociology’, have arguably altered the disciplinary mood since Gouldner published For Sociology.

2 Unless otherwise identified all references denoted in parentheses by a page number/page numbers are direct quotes from the book being reviewed. All other direct quotes follow the custom of identifying author, year of publication and page/pages.