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- Title
FROM INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY TO PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT: The Development of Industrial Sociology in the United States, 1900-1955.
- Authors
Cohen, Steven R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the development of industrial sociology. According to Albion Small, the subject matter of sociology, human association, derived its character from industrial activity. It also involves partisan political activity. Small also says that sociology was intended to increase our present intelligence about social utilities that there may be greater promotion of the general welfare. General welfare means the extension of democratic participation in industrial organizations and in the communities in which they functioned. The Pittsburgh Survey was the first comprehensive urban survey conducted in the United States and it sought to describe conditions of urban life as they were affected by industrial development. The article also examines the impact of professionalization on the intellectual content and institutional practice of industrial sociology. And it is observed that industrial research that retained the holistic approach and political involvement of the older sociology did not receive the same kind of attention as before, even if it was conducted within Sociology Departments. The professional self-definition of sociology was partly accomplished by defining studies in the older tradition as unscientific and immature. It also observes that professionalization was partly predicated on a new valuation of partisan political activity.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL sociology; INDUSTRIAL welfare; URBAN life; PROFESSIONALIZATION; SOCIOLOGY; SMALL, Albion
- Publication
Theory & Society, 1983, Vol 12, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0304-2421
- Publication type
Article