Andrew Abbott
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American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrew Delano Abbott is an American sociologist and social theorist working at the University of Chicago. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the college. His research topics range from occupations and professions to the philosophy of methods, the history of academic disciplines, to the sociology of knowledge. He is also the founder of the field of sequence analysis. He was the editor of the American Journal of Sociology from 2000 to 2016.
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Published Works
- The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (1988) (3937)
- Sequence analysis: new methods for old ideas (1995) (871)
- Time Matters: On Theory and Method (2001) (852)
- Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Methods in Sociology (2000) (720)
- Measuring Resemblance in Sequence Data: An Optimal Matching Analysis of Musicians' Careers (1990) (657)
- Transcending General Linear Reality (1988) (576)
- Things of Boundaries (1995) (514)
- Linked Ecologies: States and Universities as Environments for Professions* (2005) (450)
- Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (2004) (446)
- From Causes to Events (1992) (442)
- Of Time and Space: The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School (1997) (430)
- A Primer on Sequence Methods (1990) (381)
- Chaos of disciplines (2001) (376)
- Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences (1986) (365)
- Status and Status Strain in the Professions (1981) (358)
- Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred (1999) (285)
- The Causal Devolution (1998) (232)
- The Sociology of Work and Occupations (1993) (204)
- Conceptions of Time and Events in Social Science Methods: Causal and Narrative Approaches (1990) (189)
- Sequence Analysis and Optimal Matching Techniques for Social Science Data (2004) (184)
- Sequences of Social Events: Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Order in Social Processes (1983) (176)
- Against Narrative: A Preface to Lyrical Sociology* (2007) (161)
- The Order of Professionalization (1991) (152)
- Professionalism and the Future of Librarianship, (1998) (135)
- The Welfare State as Transnational Event: Evidence from Sequences of Policy Adoption (1992) (123)
- History and Sociology: The Lost Synthesis (1991) (105)
- Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries?: The Social Service Review Lecture (1995) (103)
- Varieties of Ignorance (1982) (97)
- Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective on Architectural Practice.By Judith R. Blau. MIT Press, 1984. 189 pp. $19.95 (1986) (92)
- Roads From Past To Future (1997) (88)
- The Problem of Excess (2014) (76)
- Reply to Levine and Wu (2000) (71)
- Reflections on the Future of Sociology (2000) (58)
- 2. Sequence Comparison Viaalignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article (1997) (56)
- Positivism and interpretation in sociology: Lessons for sociologists from the history of stress research (1990) (52)
- Jurisdictional Conflicts: A New Approach to the Development of the Legal Professions (1986) (46)
- Boundaries of social work or social work of boundaries (2016) (43)
- Recent Trends in Higher Education Applications and Acceptances (2004) (43)
- An Old Institutionalist Reads the New Institutionalism@@@The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. (1992) (41)
- Mechanisms and Relations (2007) (41)
- The Historicality of Individuals (2004) (40)
- Professional Ethics (1983) (40)
- A Labor Market Perspective on the Mobility of College Football Coaches (1983) (40)
- Process and Temporality in Sociology: The Idea of Outcome in U.S. Sociology (2005) (38)
- Reconceptualizing knowledge accumulation in sociology (2006) (34)
- Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials (2014) (34)
- From character to intellect: changing conceptions of merit in the social sciences and humanities, 1951–1971 (2003) (30)
- The Traditional Future: A Computational Theory of Library Research (2008) (30)
- Hot War, Cold War: The Structures of Sociological Action, 1940–1955 (2007) (29)
- The New Occupational Structure (1989) (29)
- A Comment on “Measuring the Agreement between Sequences” (1995) (27)
- Notes on Replication (2007) (26)
- The Polish Peasant in Oberlin and Chicago (2008) (25)
- Methods Of Discovery (2004) (21)
- Organizations and the Chicago School (2009) (19)
- Varieties of Normative Inquiry: Moral Alternatives to Politicization in Sociology (2018) (18)
- French Connections: The Reception of French Sociologists in the USA (1970-2012) (2016) (18)
- Why are ethnic minority applicants less likely to be accepted into higher education (2002) (16)
- Los Angeles and the Chicago School: A Comment on Michael Dear (2002) (16)
- Governmental Constraints and Labor Market Mobility (1984) (15)
- Seven types of ambiguity (2013) (13)
- Pragmatic Sociology and the Public Sphere (2010) (11)
- Introduction (2005) (10)
- Religion, psychiatry, and problems of everyday life. (1980) (10)
- Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century (2008) (9)
- Underemployed Ph.D.'s. (1981) (9)
- Electrochemistry: general discussion. (2018) (8)
- The Demography of Scholarly Reading (2016) (8)
- Living One’s Theories: Moral Consistency in the Life of Émile Durkheim (2019) (7)
- The future of the social sciences (2016) (7)
- Measure for measure: Abell's narrative methods (1993) (7)
- Professions, Sociology of (2001) (7)
- The Future of the Social Sciences: Between Empiricism and Normativity (2016) (6)
- Life Cycles in Social Science History (1999) (6)
- Career stage and publication in American academia (2018) (5)
- Comment on Richard Swedberg/1. Surprise! Some Comments on Richard Swedberg's Peirce Paper (2012) (5)
- The Excellence of IT: Conceptions of Quality in Academic Disciplines (2014) (5)
- Inequality and process (2016) (5)
- Design for Disassembly and Environment (1996) (5)
- Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective.Andrew Scull (1990) (4)
- Punishing the Poor.By Loïc Wacquant. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii+384. (2011) (4)
- "Mechanisms and Relations": A Response to the Comments (2007) (4)
- For Humanist Sociology (2019) (4)
- Special issue: Social science computation (2005) (3)
- Phase behaviour and thermodynamics: general discussion. (2017) (3)
- Restructuring the Sociology of the Professions@@@The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. (1990) (3)
- Book Reviews (1999) (3)
- Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action.By Harrison C. White. Princeton University Press, 1992. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95 (1994) (3)
- The Continuing Relevance of the Chicago School (2015) (2)
- Googles of the Past: Concordances and Scholarship (2013) (2)
- International journal of social research methodology lecture: The vicissitudes of methods (2012) (2)
- The Chicago School and City Planning (2020) (2)
- On Sociological Biophobia (1996) (2)
- Futures for Library Research (2015) (2)
- A Brief Note on Pasturization (2006) (2)
- Googles of the Past (2013) (2)
- Ant research 1954-76 (1977) (1)
- The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor@@@Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge@@@The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis (1992) (1)
- Event Sequence Analysis: Methods (2001) (1)
- Preserve Your Media Collection Today. (1979) (1)
- Professions in america: professional powers. (1986) (1)
- Development and Difference. Pragmatism and the Social Process (2016) (1)
- Ionic liquids at interfaces: general discussion. (2018) (1)
- Part 1. Self-Similarity in Social Science (2019) (1)
- Religion and religiosity in America : studies in honor of Joseph H. Fichter (1984) (0)
- Remarks : “ Leadership : Lost or Found ? ” — (0)
- Reviews (2002) (0)
- Interview 10 Andrew D. Abbott (2020) (0)
- The Art of Recognizing What You Ought to Have Wanted to Look For (2018) (0)
- High Tech...High Touch at Walden’s Electronic Campus - Revisited (1997) (0)
- Packaging for Dissemination. Diffusion of Innovations Handbook Series. (1978) (0)
- Processual Power, Processual Meaning? (2021) (0)
- The Demography of Scholarly Reading (2016) (0)
- Varieties of Normative Inquiry: Moral Alternatives to Politicization in Sociology (2018) (0)
- Essays Comment on Neil McLaughlin / 3 by Neil Gross (2019) (0)
- Saggi Comment on Andrew Abbott / 1 by Delia Baldassarri (2019) (0)
- Improving the Teaching of Sociology: Data, Dicta, and Directions (1981) (0)
- Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 1997 (1998) (0)
- 3 Linked Ecologies (2019) (0)
- Book Review: The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America (2009) (0)
- Book reviews (1983) (0)
- Interview: On Being the Editor of AJS (2018) (0)
- 9 Professionalism Empirical and Moral (2019) (0)
- Doing Theory in the Middle Range: Reply to Light (1984) (0)
- Books Received (1989) (0)
- Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1999 (2000) (0)
- Chapter One EXPLANATION (2006) (0)
- Acknowledgement of external reviewers for 1997 (1998) (0)
- Reason, Nature, Metaphor (2016) (0)
- 7 Social Order and Process (2019) (0)
- Comment on Andrew Abbott (2020) (0)
- Saggi Comment on Andrew Abbott / 3 by Tommaso Vitale (2007) (0)
- A Calculus of Suffering.Martin S. Pernick (1986) (0)
- 6 The Idea of Outcome (2019) (0)
- 2 Human Nature in Processual Thinking (2019) (0)
- The Professions and the State@@@Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional Empowerment. (1989) (0)
- NINE / Structure as Cited, Structure as Read (2019) (0)
- The World is a World of Events (2015) (0)
- Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770-1830: The Social World of Medical Practice.Matthew Ramsey (1989) (0)
- The Syntax of Social Life: The Theory and Method of Comparative Narratives.Peter Abell (1988) (0)
- Chapter eight The Disciplines and the Future (2002) (0)
- Reply to Comments (1997) (0)
- Windows Azure Sql Reporting: For Starters (2015) (0)
- The Medicine Show: Patients, Physicians and the Perplexities of the Health Revolution in Modern Society.Patricia Branca (1979) (0)
- Volume Information (1987) (0)
- Pragmatic Sociology and the Public Sphere: The Case of Charles Richmond Henderson (2010) (0)
- About the Authors (2005) (0)
- SSH volume 29 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
- 4 Lyrical Sociology (2019) (0)
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