Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate the founding of the first American sociology department and the publication of Parsons’s The Social System.
Estimate on a scale from 20 years (20) to 100 years (100).
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- Both dates appear in this lesson; subtract one from the other.
- The department opens in 1892 and the book appears in 1951.
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59 (answers within ±6 count)
Why
About 59 years. Sociology went from having no American department to producing a general theory of social systems inside six decades, and the two ends of that span are so different in style that they can look like separate disciplines sharing a name.
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