caa a22 4500 397524617 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950801xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3096850 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3096850 Social Problems: Pathways for Transcending Exclusive Sociology [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Wardell, Anna M. Zajicek] In this paper we juxtapose assimilationist and diversity arguments found in recent metatheoretical discussions about a crisis in North American sociology. Each argument identifies a very different crisis, yet the remedies proposed appear similar in certain instances. We suggest that the assimilationist response to the crisis reproduces it, because this response requires exclusivity in sociological inquiry. Diversity reasoning acknowledges different forms of inquiry, largely as representing situated actors in different relations of domination. In doing so, diversity reasoning points towards how to transcend exclusivity because it implicitly focuses on issues related to the question "sociology for whom?” (Lee 1976). In the last part of this paper, we offer one possible way to elaborate further the potential for this transcendence: making social problems the explicit focus of sociological knowledge and incorporating nonacademic communities into sociological projects. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Social Problems Theory nationallicence Wardell Mark Pennsylvania State University aut Zajicek Anna M. Pennsylvania State University aut Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 301-317 0037-7791 42:3<301 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3096850 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3096850 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wardell Mark Pennsylvania State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zajicek Anna M. Pennsylvania State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 301-317 0037-7791 42:3<301 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford