The Art of Recognizing What You Ought to Have Wanted to Look For

Authors

• Andrew Abbott University of Chicago

  Andrew Abbott teaches at the University of Chicago. Known for studies of the professions, Abbott also pioneered algorithmic analysis of social sequence data. He has written on the foundations of methodology and on the evolution of the social sciences, the academic system, and research libraries. His current projects include books on the future of knowledge and on processual social theory.