American here, and I understand that sociology outside of the U.S. leans less quantitative than it does here. My own impression is that outside of a select few institutions—UCLA, for instance—various programs of micro-sociological research —symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, social phenomenology—are not well-represented among the faculty.

My honest question is: why? As an outsider to the discipline coming to it from philosophy, the issues raised by microsociological approaches seem to be at the heart of sociological research generally. Is it really just the quantitative bias in the discipline?

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