A Historical Account of Danish Sociology [electronic resource] : A Troubled Sociology /
Kropp, Kristoffer.author.
This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day. Focusing on the discipline's struggle for recognition in Denmark, it is a case study of how sociological knowledge has entered into ever-changing coalitions with welfare state bureaucracies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Disciplines as Social Spaces; 2 From Pre-Disciplinary to Institutionalised Sociology; 3 Expansion, Crises and Closures; Institutionalisation of Professional and Policy Sociology; 5 Welfare-State Sociological Knowledge; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day. Focusing on the discipline's struggle for recognition in Denmark, it is a case study of how sociological knowledge has entered into ever-changing coalitions with welfare state bureaucracies.
Welfare state.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Sociology.
Ethnology—Europe.
Political sociology.
Social sciences.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
European Culture.
Political Sociology.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.