The Chronicle of Higher Education is sponsoring an online discussion this
week on an essay by Theodore D. Kemper,
a sociologist at St. John's University, in which he argues that sociology
is missing "a body of propositions" that would
define knowledge in the discipline. Mr. Kemper's essay also decries that
lack of "solution-oriented" presentations at
sociology meetings and the way "sociologists have a distressingly low
regard for cumulative knowledge."

The Chronicle invites members of this list to read Mr. Kemper's essay, and
to join the discussion about it at:
http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2000/sociology/sociology.htm

Scott Jaschik
Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education