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2. Recent Works on the position and prospects of contemporary sociology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Anthony Giddens
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1970 , pp. 143 - 154
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(27) Ibid. p. 6.

(28) It should be pointed out that the ‘organicist’ sociologists—e.g. Schäffle—differed from this emphasis.

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(39) For an account of the main themes of the controversy, see Adorno, op. cit.

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