HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE PAPERS links

Many Approaches, but Few Arrivals: Merton and the Columbia Model of Theory Construction. 2009. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39(2): 174-211.

A Life in the First Half-Century of Sociology: Charles Ellwood and the Division of Sociology. 2007. In Sociology in America: The American Sociological Associations Centennial History, edited by Craig Calhoun.

Defining a Discipline: Sociology and Its Philosophical Problems from Its Classics to 1945. 2007. Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord.

Merton’s “Norms” in Political and Intellectual Context. 2007. Journal of Classical Sociology 7(2): 161-178.

Stephen Turner and Alan Sica. Two Scholars Examine Golden Decades Imprint on Today's Sociologists. 2006. Footnotes 34(2): 4-4. http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb06/fn4.html

The Importance of Social Philosophy to Morgenthau and Waltz. 2006. In Twenty-Five Year Memorial Commemoration to Hans Morgenthau, edited by G. O. Mazur. New York: Semenenko Foundation, 174-93.

The Significance of Shils. Sociological Theory, 1999, 17: 125-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/202094

Who’s Afraid of the History of Sociology? 1998. Swiss Journal of Sociology 24: 3-10.

Did Funding Matter to the Development of Research Methods in Sociology? 1998. (Review essay of Jennifer Platt, A History of Sociological Research Methods in America). Minerva 36: 69-79. http://www.springerlink.com/content/u767x4j877421638/

Turner, Stephen. 2004. Why should Sociology (or Social Theory) Care about Cognitive Science? Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section, 9-11.

http://www.csun.edu/~egodard/asatheory/newsletters/Perspectives-2004-Oct.pdf

HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE PAPERS WITHOUT LINKS

Buxton, William and Stephen Turner. 1992. Education and Expertise: Sociology as a “Profession.” Sociology and Its Publics, edited by Terence C. Halliday and Morris Janowitz (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 373-407.

Turner, Stephen. 1992. The Strange Life and Hard Times of the Concept of General Theory in Sociology: A Short History of Hope. Postmodernism and Social Theory, edited by Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 101-33.

Turner, Stephen. 1994. The Origins of “Mainstream Sociology” and other Issues in the History of American Sociology: A Response to Bulmer, Camic, Demerath and Schuman. Social Epistemology 8: 41-67.

Turner, Stephen. 1996. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise. Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century, edited by Maurine W. Greenwald and Margo Anderson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 35-49.

Turner, Stephen. 2004. Why should Sociology (or Social Theory) Care about Cognitive Science? Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section, 9-11.