Through his work, he developed seven different categories of how sociologist use the term “theory” which he differentiated through subscripts. For example, according to a “reasonably large group of sociologists, . . . [ theory] . . . is a general proposition, or logically-connected system o...
The massive expansion of US higher education after World War II is a sociological puzzle: a spectacular feat of state capacity-building in a highly federated polity. Prior scholarship names academic leaders as key drivers of this expansion, yet the conditions for the possibility and fate of their...
SCHAPIRO: Part of it was change in labor markets and change in female labor-force participation rates. So it wasn’t that hard to predict the so-called feminization of the academy. But you know, I’m not a sociologist. I can’t really tell you what’s happening to these poor men ...