Professor Charles Crothers
Charles Crothers is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at AUT, Auckland after previously serving as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Prior to this position Charles had lectured in the Departments of Sociology at the University of Auckland, and Victoria University and had been President of the New Zealand Sociological Association. My research and teaching interests span: Sociological/Social Theory: I have been concerned to examine the analytical theories in the work of Robert K Merton, and to develop a robust conceptualisation of social structure. Social Research Methodology/methods Sociology of Science and Social Science: I have studied the Columbia Tradition of Sociology, national sociologies, and most broadly comparative patterns in world sociology and organisation of social research. Studies of New Zealand and Auckland: I am concerned to understand the linkages holding social structures together over time, which has involved studying a wide range of topics concerning communities, organisations and the attitudes, ideologies and knowledges held within societies about themselves. |
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