Download or read book What Has Sociology Achieved? written by Henk A. Becker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when continued financial and other support for teaching and research in sociology cannot be taken for granted, sociologists have been surprisingly slow to provide a clear statement of the achievements of sociology in the western world since 1950. What Has Sociology Achieved? does this by assembling twelve essays specially commissioned from distinguished authors, to which the editors add an introduction setting out the issues and a concluding chapter which draws together recurrent themes.