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  • Call for papers – Norbert Elias and Sociology of Childhood

    Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Childhood will be edited by Tatiana Savoia Landini (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil) Norman Gabriel (University of Essex, United Kingdom), and published by Palgrave. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the growing field of Child ... Read More

    Last edited on:12,Aug 2020 04:04:32 by Stephen Mennell

  • Short Process Reflections on the Pandemic 1.

    Originally, I started drafting this series of reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic in late March/April. It should come as no surprise that the relations, which were perceptible earlier in the year have continued into August. The late Johan Goudsblom has remarked that historical ... Read More

    Last edited on:11,Aug 2020 07:16:52 by Alexander Mack

  • Virtual Symposium: Interdependencies in process

     XVIII International Symposium on Civilizing Processes Dates 17, 18, 19 and 20 November 2020 Bogotá, Colombia time: 08h30 to 18h00. sipc2020english.wordpress.com   The presence of the coronavirus, especially in Latin America, generated changes in academic ac ... Read More

    Last edited on:06,Jul 2020 05:13:23 by Stephen Mennell

  • Cambio: Open Lab in Covid-19

    The Italian journal Cambio, which aims to promote theoretical and analytical debates at the international level, based on contributions focused on change processes that affect individuals and societies, created an Open Lab section to accelerate the publication of studies related ... Read More

    Last edited on:22,May 2020 03:07:51 by Ana Flávia Braun Vieira

  • XVIII International Symposium on Civilizing Processes 2020: Changes due to COVID-19 crisis.

      Greetings, Many university activities and events planned for this year 2020 have been affected by the global health crisis of COVID-19. The case of international events is even more sensitive, since borders have been closed in some countries and we do not know for su ... Read More

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Richard Kilminster on the Sociological Revolution and the spiral development of Sociology
That summer morning, Richard and I were discussing the subject of theory development in sociology. As many says, the "golden age" of sociology was before the First World War. Richard is more optimistic in stating that it is still to come. However, in recent years, theoretical debates have not reached the same level of liveliness they had in the beginnings of Sociology. It has expanded to include new topics, but recent sociological approaches lack a comparable ability to synthesize. I contradicted and defended contemporary sociology, which led to a lively debate.
We discuss Richard's thesis of a crescent development of possible sociology debates, the influences of other disciplines and the potential future of sociology in the multitude of scientific disciplines.