ABSTRACT
The concepts, methods, relevances, and topics of sociology are accomplished in the social organization of the discourse…. The discourse is maintained by practices that determine who can participate in it as fully competent members…. To be recognized as a proper participant, the member must produce work that conforms to appropriate styles and terminologies, makes the appropriate deferences, and is locatable…in the traditions…whose themes it elaborates…and by whose criteria it is to be evaluated.
