Abstract
The paper focuses on an analysis of the potential impact that the behaviorist and ethnomethodological paradigms may have on academic sociology. Structural analysis in the sociology of sociology (Friedrichs, 1974; Mullins, 1973) is criticized and countered with an analysis which stresses the process of theory acceptance and rejection exploiting Gouldner's concept of domain assumptions (1970). Utilizing data from a large survey of sociologists queried during the mid-sixties (Sprehe, 1967), the fit between various groupings of sociologists' domain assumptions and the background assumptions of each theory are analyzed. The results of such an analysis suggest that ethnomethodology may be more attractive to certain groupings of sociologists than behaviorism, thus contradicting in part the argument advanced on the basis of a analysis. The paper calls for a recognition of the dialectical interplay between structural conditions and subjective forces in the adoption and rejection of theory.
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