Sosyolojide Dört Ana Gelenek

by Randall Collins

Bu kitabin ana tezi, sosyolojide toplumsal dünyaya iliskin bilgilerde önemli ilerlemeler saglandigidir. Çogu kez sosyolojinin kümülatif bir bilim olmadigi ve klâsik dönem düsünürlerin günümüzdeki teorisyenler ve arastirmacilardan önemli, hatta daha önemli olmayi sürdürdükleri iddia edilse de, bu kitapta klasik sosyolojiden modern sosyoloji türlerine kadar bazi önemli gelisme çizgilerinin bulundugunu göstermek istiyorum. Ancak burada modern sosyolojide teorik görüsler arasinda bazi temel bölünmeler olmadigini kastetmiyorum. Günümüz düsünce dünyasinin gerçekligi, karsit bakis açilari arasindaki derin ayrismadir. Ancak bu fikir ayriliklari sinirsiz degildir ve alanimiz hakkindaki bir baska önemli gerçege ters düsmezler: bazi düsünce çizgilerinde son bir asirdir giderek daha geliskin bilgilere ulasilmistir. Bu kitapta seçtigim dört gelenek sosyolojide sadece kümülatif gelismenin degil, teorik ilerlemenin de saglandigi alanlardir. Onlarin sosyolojinin çekirdek gelenekleri olarak görülebileceklerini düsünüyorum. Bu gelenekler zaman içinde süreklilik sergilemislerdir ve diger birkaç gelenekle uyumlu bir düsünce derinligine sahiplerdir. Sosyolojide Dört Ana Gelenek'in sosyolojinin dört - bes kusaktir ne kadar ilerleme kaydettigini gösterebileceginin umuyorum.

326 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Dr. Randall Collins is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various languages. Collins is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise include the macro-historical sociology of political and economic change; micro-sociology, including face-to-face interaction;and the sociology of intellectuals and social conflict. He has devoted much of his career and research to study society, how is it created and destroyed through emotional behaviors of human beings. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United States, and served as the president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 to 2011.

Dr. Collins' first position in academia was at UC Berkeley, followed by many other universities including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by the UC San Diego, the University of Virginia, then UC Riverside, and finally the University of Pennsylvania. He took intermittent breaks from academia, as a novelist, and as a freelance scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Chicago, Harvard, and Cambridge, as well as various schools in Europe, Japan, and China. Collins has published almost one hundred articles since finishing his undergraduate education. He has also written and contributed to several books with a range of topics such as the discovery of society to the sociology of marriage and family life.

Dr. Collins grew up in a slew of different cities and countries, his father being a diplomat (and possible spy) with the US State Department during the Cold War. They lived in Germany immediately following World War II, and later in Moscow, among other places such as Uruguay.