Sociology of sociology

1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Sociology of sociology or metasociology is an area of sociology that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.

[citation needed] For the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the task of the sociology of sociology is to debrief accepted truths, focusing on the questioning of canons and acting towards new epistemologies.

[1] In his book A History of Sociology in Britain, published 2004, British sociologist Andrew Halsey outlines a sociology of sociology.

He suggests a connection between political economic regimes in the 20th century and the development of sociology as an academic discipline.

[2] This sociology-related article is a stub.

University of Łódź, Poland. Faculty of Economics and Sociology main entrance.
University of Łódź , Poland . Faculty of Economics and Sociology main entrance.