Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D) - Swinburne University of Technology, 1999. / Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, 1999. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-352).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Köln, 1973. / Vita on last page. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-214).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1941. / Bibliography: p. 169-183.

Sociologists affiliated with three universities in Western Canada were interviewed in a study designed to explore important influences on current research interests. Categories of influence were constructed and subjects were grouped according to similarities in mentioned influences. It was found that subjects who mentioned similar influences on their research interests displayed other similarities in the way in which they related to their research topics and to the discipline. A typology based on subjects' research orientations to their research topics was constructed. Evidence presented in the thesis suggests that the particular research orientation of any sociologist may represent an important factor in determining the kind of research that he or she produces. The small sampling in this study prevented systematic analysis of the influence of factors such as citizenship and graduate school training as determinants of research interests. However, data presented suggests that the research orientation of sociologists should be included, as a variable, in any large-scale study of the effects of citizenship and graduate training on the research carried out by sociologists in Canada. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 328-347).

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Durkheim's background is described: born into a rabbinical family in Alsace-Lorraine, he grew up in an environment of defensive social cohesiveness, austerity and moral severity. On the third attempt, he was admitted to the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1879. His reaction to the Ecole's largely classical and literary curriculum was unfavourable, but he excelled in philosophical and political discussions with his contemporaries (he was strongly republican) and, though critical of most of his teachers, he is shown to have been influenced by Boutroux and Fustel de Coulanges, as well as by the work of Renouvier. After his agregation, he became a lycee teacher of philosophy. His early ideas about sociology are traced: in particular, his move from social philosophy to sociology, the formative influence of Comte, his qualified sympathy for Taine, his hostility to Renan, his adherence to scientific rationalism and strong opposition to all forms of dilettantism and mysticism, his early ideas about the practical implications of social science (and his hesitations in this regard), the development of his so-called "social realism" and the influence upon it of Comte, Spencer and Espinas respectively. Wishing to see social science at work, he visited Germany during 1835-6. His reactions to this visit are considered: his admiration of German university life, his attitude to German philosophy and the implications he drew concerning philosophy teaching in France, his approval of the Germans 1 organic conception of society, arid, in particular, of the work of the social econo­ mists, the jurists and Wundt. Their influence on his thought is assessed. In 1887 he was appointed to teach social science and education at Bordeaux. [Continued in text ...]