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There is a paradox at the heart of British sociology’s expansion: How did a subject which up to the early 1950s had existed, both institutionally and intellectually, in relative obscurity and which had struggled to define itself and prove its potential, suddenly rise in the 1960s to become one of the most attractive academic subjects? This chapter explains how sociology used its own weaknesses to take better advantage than other subjects of the opportunities presented by the expansion. It also explains that, in order to sustain sociology’s newfound and much more popular profile and to avoid discouraging students, sociologists resisted making quantitative methods an essential part of sociological training. |
