![]() ![]() ![]() Based on these sources, the discipline looks more ethnocentric than one might expect, even as it is more global. We learned from them about the most important contributions to scholarship in their field, and received additional valuable commentary on the status of the international in American sociology. We also draw on surveys of published materials and correspondence with more than 70 American sociology department members evidently international in their scholarly commitments. ![]() We focus on the last 50 and especially the most recent 25 years of our disciplinary practice, simultaneously a time of globalization and a new “golden age” of comparative and historical sociology (Collins 1999). We use that provisional clarification to guide an historical review of American sociological internationalism over the past century. How has the world beyond the United States of America shaped the development of American sociology over this last century? To what extent has American sociology treated empirical reality outside of the United States as part of its professional “sample”? Should American sociology cultivate more international perspectives? We begin this essay by clarifying the range of things to which sociologists might refer when they use the word “international” to mark sociology in America. ![]()
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