AMERICAN SOCIOLOGISTPub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1007/s12108-025-09657-3
Sida Liu, Gihad Nasr
{"title":"The City and the North: Canada in the Chicago School of Sociology.","authors":"Sida Liu, Gihad Nasr","doi":"10.1007/s12108-025-09657-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-025-09657-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the intertwined histories of the Chicago School of sociology and Canadian sociology, challenging the conventional view that the Chicago School's development was confined to the city of Chicago. By examining the academic journeys of prominent Canadian scholars such as Annie Marion MacLean, Roderick McKenzie, Helen and Everett Hughes, and Erving Goffman, it illustrates how their contributions were instrumental in shaping both the Chicago School and Canadian sociology. This research, based on extensive archival materials from primary and secondary sources, suggests that the continuous mobility and interaction of scholars between Chicago and Canada played an important role in the historical evolution of sociological thought. The study aims to \"decenter\" the Chicago School by highlighting the significant yet often overlooked contributions of Canadian sociologists, thereby providing a new understanding of its legacy and global impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":"57 1","pages":"36-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13053392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Why) is the Sociology of Religion Marginalized? Results from a Survey Experiment","authors":"Samuel L. Perry","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09597-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09597-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":"299 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135352243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argumentative Delphi Surveys: Lessons for Sociological Research","authors":"Kerstin E. Cuhls","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09596-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09596-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This contribution explains new variants of Argumentative Delphi surveys that can also be used in sociological research, some examples and the learnings from and limits of argumentative surveys with feedback. Argumentative Delphi surveys are not new. As Christian Dayé explains in his book, the early expert surveys and especially the Delphi surveys used explanations and arguments for exchanging knowledge - but always without direct interation (Dayé, C. (2020). Experts, Social Scientistss and Techniques of Prognosis in cold war of America. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences, palgrave McMilan, Switzerland:41, see also Cuhls, K. (1998). Technikvorausschau in Japan. Ein Rückblick auf 30 Jahre Delphi-Expertenbefragungen. Physica. [Technology Foresight in Japan]). The very first approaches of Delphi surveys did not only make use of expert knowledge in judging issues under uncertainty or were trying to make accurate predictions with statistical analysis, but there were also tests in groups of students. In some of them, the groups did not only choose and tick boxes, but gave reasons or comments for their judgments. Modern Argumentative Delphi surveys do ask for comments AND use a variety of open questions for adding information to the statistical findings. This way of performing a Delphi survey gets more and more ground and can be analysed in a fast way by new means of text mining and Delphi software tools. But they have their limits - especially as they are very demanding for the participants and the analysts. If many people participate, many arguments are given, and they can quickly go beyond the limits of the participants‘ understanding and their time availability. Some lessons learned from recent Delphi projects are reported. This is closing the cycle to Dayé’s description of expert knowledge inclusion in policy-making - a way of integration of expert opinion without direct interaction.","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: C. Wright Mills in Copenhagen: Collaboration, Politics, and the Making of 'The Sociological Imagination","authors":"Klaus Petersen","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09595-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09595-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sociology of the Digital Space, Social Research and Emotions","authors":"Andrea Dettano","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09593-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09593-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49611136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Old and New Questions for Sociology: The Global Importance of the Sociology of Emotions","authors":"Aldana Boragnio","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09592-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09592-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42919367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictive Knowledge Infrastructures and Future-related Expertise Before the Cold War","authors":"Jamie L. Pietruska","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09582-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09582-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43605582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consensus vs. Situated Constitutive Practices: Mapping Developments in the Role of the Expert at RAND After WWII onto Key Issues in Sociology","authors":"A. Rawls","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09590-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09590-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47444943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C. Wright Mills in Copenhagen: Collaboration, Politics, and the Making of 'The Sociological Imagination","authors":"K. Petersen","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09585-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09585-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42982177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}