Samuel Turner’s and Thomas L. Hurd’s studies are particularly worth reading. They are the first to address this problem, but they are not the last. The field of sociology is undergoing rapid growth, with a focus on people, people’s communities, and society as a whole. But when we think about social work in this country, there is no shortage of examples on how the work of sociology is changing. The social work profession has grown and changed and changed again through the course of its 75 years. The latest research in sociology takes this study further.
The following seven books show how sociology has changed both how people are educated and the fields they go into. They make this change important to people who can help shape the future of sociology research and teaching.
1. The Changing Face of Modern Sociology, by Samuel L. Turner
Thomas J. Hurd’s research looks at the changing research field of sociology and how that changes people’s lives. Turner’s chapter takes a look at how sociology has developed in the United States, particularly since the 1950s and 1960s. He shows how the fields of sociology, anthropology, sociology in the social sciences, human development, and sociology of education have gotten more and more intertwined for people who are trying to help people with problems.
2. Sociological Models of Society: An International Review, edited by Robert A. Caufield and Linda B. Caufield.
This is perhaps the most comprehensive study of what people think of as sociology today. Caufield and Caufield focus on a very unique and controversial field of anthropology: ethnographic anthropology. Caufield and Caufield are anthropologists now, and you better believe they find what the modern social sciences don’t. Their review is full of provocative ideas, ranging from sociobiology to non-experimental ethnographies to how anthropologists use the ideas of ethnobiology. Each chapter of the book has its own unique voice and topic that is worth reading.
3. What You See Is What You Get: A Social Sciences History, edited by David Wibowo and Jennifer Lee.
The editors of this excellent review of social science history include a collection of essays that shows the evolution of social science from the 1600s through the 1980s. There are fascinating books in there, most of them in this section of the book. The main topic to be covered is how social scientists have changed their understanding