Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE INTELLECTUAL DEBATES AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS -- 1 Professionalism in British Sociology -- 2 Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices and Virtues -- 3 Oxbridge Sociology: the Development of Centres of Excellence? -- 4 The Collapse of British Sociology? -- PART TWO SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: CREATION AND PRACTICE -- 5 The Social Construction of 'Positivism' and Its Significance in British Sociology, 1950-80 -- 6 The Anti-Quantitative Bias in Postwar British Sociology -- 7 Towards a Rehabilitation of Data -- 8 W(h)ither Sociological Methodology?: Generalisation and Comparative Method -- 9 Sociological Practice and Language -- PART THREE MARXISM AND FEMINISM: RADICAL INTERVENTIONS IN SOCIOLOGY -- 10 Sociologies and Marxisms: the Odd Couples -- 11 The Division of Labour Revisited or Overcoming the Two Adams -- Bibliography -- Index