序＆第１章読了。
ここは笑うところですか？
Of course, not all sociologists go along with the scientistic style of research that dominates American sociology. Quantified and rationalized approaches to social phenomena are anathema to many sociologists, and the discipline is presently undergoing an intensification of its chronic crisis. As always, the crisis concerns whether sociology should continue to conduct itself as a late-blooming "infant" science or to take a more radically interpretive and humanistic approach. But even this debate tends to get caught up in archaic antinomies that no longer have a place in antifoundationalist discourse. Debates about micro versus macro orders of analytic scale, structure versus agency, science versus humanism, and quan-titative versus qualitative methods tend to reiterate the familiar conceptual oppositions that many contemporary philosophers and literary scholars have endeavored to put aside. Somewhat late in the game, a growing number of sociologists have begun to appreciate postconventionalist, poststructuralist, or deconstructionist modes of writing, but their efforts too often amount to weak imitations of the longer-running exercises conducted in other fields. This is a particularly ironic development for sociology, a field that should be in the forefront of the "sociological turn" experienced in so many other disciplines. [introduction p.xiv]
