TY - JOUR
AU1 - Turner, Stephen
AB - Peter Baehr, Katelin Albert, Eleanore Townsley and Neil Gross raise a variety of issues in relation to American Sociology: From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal (2014a). In response, I defend the claim that the revival of sociology enrollments after the 1980s owes something to the concentration on gender issues and the feminization of sociology. I defend the claim that the response to the enrollment crisis was a rational strategy which succeeded. I also consider challenges to my depiction of the caste system in American sociology against the idea that there is a continuous distribution of merit. I argue that the changes in American sociology during this period need to be understood against the larger backdrop of the transformation to post-normal science and the acceptance of openly partisan academic fields. Although I attempted to record rather than evaluate these developments, I respond to Baehr and Townsley’s attempt to discern an evaluative stance, and provide a context for this response in relation to the problem of expertise.
TI - Going Post-Normal: A Response to Baehr, Albert, Gross, and Townsley
JF - The American Sociologist
DO - 10.1007/s12108-014-9247-4
DA - 2014-12-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/going-post-normal-a-response-to-baehr-albert-gross-and-townsley-RZjAher0s3
SP - 51
EP - 64
VL - 46
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -