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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the various sociologies of New Zealand from the late 19th century to the present day. Opening with previously undocumented insights into the history of proto-sociology in New Zealand, the book then explores the parallel stories of the discipline both as a mainstream subject in Sociology departments and as a more diffuse 'sociology' within other university units .The rise and fall of departments, specialties and research networks is plotted and the ways in which external and internal factors have shaped these is explained. Different generations of sociologists, including many immigrants, are each shown to have left their unique mark on New Zealand sociology. The author demonstrates that the rising interest in topics specific to New Zealand has been accompanied by increasing capacities to contribute to world sociology. This book will have inter-disciplinary appeal across the social sciences and provides a valuable study of the development of sociology in a semi-peripheral country.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A long Pre-history: up to 1960.- Chapter 3: Departments: the operational units of University Sociology.- Chapter 4: Interest-areas & Adjacent Disciplines.- Chapter 5: Processes of Sociological Production.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
About the author
Charles Crothers is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His current areas of research include Social Theory, Methods of Applied Social Research and Policy Processes, the History and Current Situation of Sociology, and Settler Societies (especially New Zealand and South Africa). He has also been the co-editor of New Zealand Sociology and is currently senior editor of the Royal Society of New Zealand's Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online and Vice-President of the Research Committee on History of Sociology of the International Sociological Association.
Summary
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the various sociologies of New Zealand from the late 19th century to the present day. Opening with previously undocumented insights into the history of proto-sociology in New Zealand, the book then explores the parallel stories of the discipline both as a mainstream subject in Sociology departments and as a more diffuse ‘sociology’ within other university units .The rise and fall of departments, specialties and research networks is plotted and the ways in which external and internal factors have shaped these is explained. Different generations of sociologists, including many immigrants, are each shown to have left their unique mark on New Zealand sociology. The author demonstrates that the rising interest in topics specific to New Zealand has been accompanied by increasing capacities to contribute to world sociology. This book will have inter-disciplinary appeal across the social sciences and provides a valuable study of the development of sociology in a semi-peripheral country.
