Getting Sociology Right

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Getting Sociology Right is written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520958489 (ISBN 10) and 9780520958487 (ISBN 13).

Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, Smelser discusses his views on the discipline of sociology and shows how his perspective of the field evolved in the postwar era.