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Sociology today manifests itself in textbooks, journals, departments, conferences, and professional associations in two different ways. First, like other social science disciplines, sociology covers a broad and diverse range of research problems, research topics, and research fields. This indicates that sociology is thriving. Second, sociology is fragmented. It comprises a multitude of ‘approaches’ that do not share a common core of basic methodological standards for theoretical and empirical work. This is a worrisome feature and is less common in several other social science disciplines. Without a common core across approaches, theoretical and empirical work is hard to evaluate and to compare, and cumulative growth of knowledge is impeded. Yet, this fragmentation is sometimes euphemistically welcomed within the discipline, using labels such as ‘multi-paradigmatic’ (see Goldthorpe 2007, Chapter 1 and Hedstrom 2005, Chapter 1 for critical discussion of multi-paradigmatic fragmentation).