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The Rise and Fall of Sociology
Some of the greatest sociological projects that were concerned, what you might call a theory of society, have to a certain extent largely disappeared from the field of sociology. I think they're really important or relevant quite now simply because when I think we would have to go back a bit in history in order to understand why they're so relevant at the moment. After World War II, sociology starts to react in a sense upon its own, right? So it has already built a certain standing. And now the question is, it starts to look at what it has. You know, Tucker Parsons being someone who tries to fuse and merge existing sociological thinkers. But likewise, therefore, you also see