Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and pr
In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls aprocessual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remakin
