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This article presents an author's viewpoint on teaching sociology in the 1990s. A staunch defender of the Western canon poses the key question well: "who reads must choose, since there is literally not enough time to read everything, even if one does nothing but read." Time constraints are even more pressing in designing courses, given that not everything can be taught. If the role of the teacher is to encourage students to have productive relationships with texts; it is imperative that these relationships are not confined to a handful of authors held to represent all sociological thinking. Instead, the following three lines of development should be pursued: A retrospective enlargement of the entry point into sociology; A re-interpretation of the implicit hierarchies underlying choices of classic authors and canonical texts; and A re-periodisation of the narratives organizing the understanding of sociology to correct the myopic focus on modernity. Teachers should distinguish more clearly between saying what sociology has been and what it might become.

Many writers hold that research method is necessarily determined by theory, and it is common to suggest the relationship between functionalism and survey method in post-war US sociology as an example of this. This paper questions the extent to which that method and that theory were in reality meaningfully associated, and argues against the position that theory and method are in general invariably connected in the way suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers brief profiles of people who contributed to the writing of this journal including Isabelle Darmon, Ben Gidley, and Azzedine Haddour.

This article profiles authors whose work appears in the issue, including researcher Laura Airey, professor Kathryn Backett-Milburn, and lecturer Norman Gabriel.

The article presents a list of contributing authors for the February 1, 2008 issue, including Will Atkinson, Stephen J. Ball, and Annette Braun.

Biographical information on authors whose work appears in the issue is provided.

This article presents information about the authors of the articles in the Feb. 1, 2006 issue of "Sociological Review," including information about their current positions, subjects of interest, business addresses, email addresses, accomplishments, and publications. Some of the authors included are Nicolas Bacon, Erik Bihagen, Paul Blyton, Julia Brannen, Chris Brickell, and others.

The article provides information about the contributors of articles published in the November 2005 issue of "The Sociological Review."

This section presents some background information on contributors of articles in this issue of "The Sociological Review".

Presents a list of contributors to the May 2004 issue of "The Sociological Review."

Offers information on contributing authors to the May 2002 issue of the journal 'The Sociological Review.'