title: Abstract and engaged critique in sociology: on football hooliganism.
abstract: This note is a response to a critical review of some of my own work published recently in the British Journal of Sociology but it does not reply to the specific criticisms made in that article. Rather it addresses the question of what constitutes appropriate critique in sociology by developing a distinction between abstract and engaged criticism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Exeter.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005538:Football; D006801:Humans; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders; D012961:Sociology