Careers, identities, and institutions: the legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology

摘要: A sociology which forgets its past may be committed to the continuous rediscovery of old ideas. When provenance thought is unknown, authorship can claimed by those who lack any proper title it. Old issues are proclaimed innovations, only recede again into limbo from they were retrieved. The unstated component … a fertile culture for emergence cyclical pattern recovery and loss. Paul Rock, 1979 Specialization rarely proceeds simply redistributing tasks. Instead, most specialties evolve gradually pruning back an initially broader set interests. By sloughing off fuzzier elements earlier in favor more developed concepts, nascent ostensibly select precise tools roughing out cumulative line inquiry. In process, however, fruitful but less articulate ideas fall through discipline's cracks. Consequently, when specialists stop take stock their progress, as partial function handbook such this, should not seek consolidate hard-won treasures also attempt uncover long-neglected paths once blazed forebears. so doing, reclaim realms inquiry that might now profitably explored. Thus, it with eye enriching career theory this essay deals what seem all-too-distant past. My intent, neither write history nor lead modern scholars on pilgrimage roots. Though trek prove enlightening, begs focus than my own.