In this article it is argued that the search for 'social mechanisms' is of
crucial importance for the development of sociological theory. With this concept
- which is occasionally used in the sociological literature but has received
little systematic attention - attention is called to an intermediary level of
analysis in-between pure description and story- telling, on the one hand, and
universal s... hiện toàn bộ
A theory is formulated with which to analyze transactions in social
retationships Economic types of exchange characterized by calculation and
self-interest on the part of the actors are contrasted with more "social" forms
of transaction such as occur in the cases of role relationships with
interlocking rights and obligations and persons strongly attached to one
another. The social factors and cond... hiện toàn bộ
This qualitative study explores how sociology is legitimated among established
Finnish and Swedish sociology professors, who are conceived as a scientific
elite. Drawing on a Bourdieusian framework, the analysis traces the discourses
that define legitimate sociology in these two national contexts, and the
relations between those discourses. While the scientific elite of Finnish and
Swedish sociolo... hiện toàn bộ