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Author | : Rhonda F. Levine |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317260406 |
Since the 1960s, radical sociology has had far more influence on mainstream sociology than many observers imagine. This book pairs seminal articles with new reflective essays written by the founders of progressive sociology, including Fred Block, Edna Bonacich, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Val Burris, G. William Domhoff, Richard Flacks, Harvey Molotch, Goran Therborn, and Erik Olin Wright. The book highlights the wider impact of radical sociology and shows how the work of these and other writers has continued to influence sociology's continuing interest in capitalism, class, race, gender, power, and progressive social change. It also describes future directions for a critical sociology relevant to a multicultural and global world.
Author | : Rhonda F. Levine |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004139923 |
This unique book presents classical articles from "The Insurgent Sociologist" along with critical reflections by their distinguished authors. The Introduction contextualizes radical sociology of the 1970s.The conclusion provides an agenda for a critical sociology that is both public and scientific.
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Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Charles Wright Mills |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2000-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0195133730 |
Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. Leading sociologist Todd Gitlin brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid afterword in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.
Author | : John Scott |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-11-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782540032 |
With renowned international contributors and expert contributions from a range of specialisms, this book will appeal to academics, students and researchers of sociology.
Author | : Ismael Puga |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351353454 |
C. Wright Mills’s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a manifesto and roadmap for the field. Its wide acceptance and popular reception is a clear demonstration of the rhetorical power of Wright’s strong reasoning skills. In critical thinking, reasoning involves the creation of an argument that is strong, balanced, and, of course, persuasive. In Mills’s case, this core argument makes a case for what he terms the “sociological imagination”, a particular quality of mind capable of analyzing how individual lives fit into, and interact with, social structures. Only by adopting such an approach, Mills argues, can sociologists see the private troubles of individuals as the social issues they really are. Allied to this central argument are supporting arguments for the need for sociology to maintain its independence from corporations and governments, and for social scientists to steer away from ‘high theory’ and focus on the real difficulties of everyday life. Carefully organized, watertight and persuasive, The Sociological Imagination exemplifies reasoned argument at its best.
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Author | : Heather Love |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022676110X |
Introduction : beginning with Stigma -- The Stigma archive -- Just watching -- A sociological periplum -- Doing being deviant -- Afterword : the politics of stigma.
Author | : David Haney |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2008-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1592137156 |
A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.