ABSTRACT
Celarent's authors are a representative if very small sample of the possibilities of national sociologies and what they tell us is that aside from a few occasional family resemblances, great social analysts of diverse countries wrote in a variety of formats about a variety of topics. She clearly believes that knowing more simple facts is better than knowing fewer simple facts, and she often speaks of the growth of this or that short-term paradigm in sociology new social movements theory or practice theory or subjective ethnography or network analysis. Metropolitan sociology is in part constituted of sub-communities which have strong links across national boundaries. National and regional difference occupied a privileged place in midcentury metropolitan sociology, as they did in popular consciousness throughout much of the world in that period. Gokalp is the obvious example here, using Durkheimian sociology as a blueprint for creating an ethnic Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
