Volume 32, Issue 4 | The American Sociologist

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Volume 32, Issue 4

December 2001

8 articles in this issue

Editor’s introduction: Literature and professional practices
Lawrence T. Nichols
EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4
“Status! Yes!”: Tom Wolfe as a sociological thinker
Joel Best
OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 22
Sociologists as characters in twentieth-century novels
Diane Bjorklund
OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 41
Sociologists on trial: Theoretical competition and juror reasoning
Mark Peyrot
Stacy Lee Burns
OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 69
The professional ideology of social pathologists transformed: The new political orthodoxy in sociology
Myles J. Kelleher
OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 88
Ceremonial degradation of a doctoral candidate: An essay on the social situation of graduate student ethnographers and other inmates
Norman Conti
OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 97
Recent trends in faculty employment in sociology
Patricia M. Odeix
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Alejandro del Carmen
OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 106
In memoriam: Athena Theodore (1919–2001)
Jane Knowles Webb
OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 108