A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.

Douglas V. Porpora is a Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His previous publications include Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular (2013).

1. Seven myths of American sociology; 2. Do realists run regressions?; 3. What is truth?; 4. Whatever happened to social structure?; 5. Are we not men - or, rather, persons?; 6. What and where is culture?; 7. Do we need critical realism?; 8. So what do we do with it?