Andrew Delano Abbott

Author of The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

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Works by Andrew Delano Abbott

Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials (2014) 76 copies

Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (2004) 63 copies

Chaos of Disciplines (2001) 53 copies

Time Matters: On Theory and Method (2001) 35 copies

Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred (1999) 19 copies

Processual Sociology (2016) 17 copies

The Aims of Education Address 2002 1 copy

American Journal of Sociology - Vol. 122 Number 3 - November 2016 1 copy

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The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division… by Andrew Abbott

I confess this was a bit of slog for me to get through; as someone who saw me with the book remarked, "that's awfully long for an 'essay.'" In retrospect, once you have a grasp of his thesis from the early chapters, it may not be necessary to work through all the subsequent explanations.

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dono421846 | 1 other review | Jun 11, 2013 |

Department & discipline : Chicago sociology at one… by Andrew Delano Abbott

"The customary view is that the Chicago school [of sociology] comprises a period [roughly 1915-1935], a set of professors [Park, Burgess, Faris, Thomas], a set of students [Wirth, Blummer, etc.], and a body of work. The work cannot be categorized simply, but there are some general similarities: it is "often about the city," usually Chicago; it examines "social movements and cultural change" in terms of group interactions; and it has a "certain empirical, even observational flavor…There were three "central examination areas": social psychology," "social organization," and "ecology."… (more)

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profsuperplum | May 21, 2009 |

Methods of discovery : heuristics for the social… by Andrew Delano Abbott

I was fortunate enough to have this book assigned during my first semester in graduate school. It is wonderfully clear and absolutely invaluable to me as a student in the social sciences.