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Sociology Through Literature
| Author | : Lewis A. Coser |
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Sociology Through Literature
| Author | : S. Devadas Pillai |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2019-07-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000020657 |
This book presents a comprehensive study of nearly 100 of Kaaroor’s short stories. Kaaroor Neelakanta Pillai is one among the Big Six of the ‘new wave’ in Malayalam literature which began in the mid-1940s. The Big Six and their immediate followers wrote about the common man, peasants, pavement-dwellers, fishermen, rickshaw-pullers, underpaid school teachers — their lives, aspirations and vulnerabilities. By treating Kaaroor’s stories as case studies, the book takes a sociological approach to understanding the representation of a wide array of themes: romantic overtones, erotic pursuits, marital episodes, issues of family, lives of children, behavioural patterns, shades of greed, the idea of spirituality and politics in Malayalam literature. With its annotated transcreation and detailed commentary, this book brings Kaaroor’s works to the general reader, and will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, English literature, linguistics, cultural studies, besides those interested in Malayalam literature and the Malayali/Indian diaspora across the world.
Fiction and Social Reality
| Author | : Mariano Longo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2016-03-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317135555 |
In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relationships, action, motivation, social constraints and relationships, for example. As such, sociologists have always been fascinated with fictional literature. This book reinvigorates the debate surrounding the utility of fiction as a sociological resource, examining the distinction between the two forms of writing and exploring the views of early sociologists on the suitability of subjecting literary sources to sociological analysis. Engaging with contemporary debates in this field, the author explores the potential sociological use of literary fiction, considering the role of literature as the exemplification of sociological concepts, a non-technical confirmation of theoretical insights, and a form of empirical material used to confirm a set of theoretically oriented assumptions. A fascinating exploration of the means by which the sociological eye can be sharpened by engagement with literary sources, Fiction and Social Reality offers a set of methodological principles according to which literature can be examined sociologically. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and literary studies with interests in research methods and interdisciplinary approaches to scholarly research.
Auguste Comte: Volume 1
| Author | : Mary Pickering |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 792 |
| Release | : 1993-11-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 052143405X |
The first volume of a two-volume intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology and positivism.
Emotions through Literature
| Author | : Mariano Longo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2019-07-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351811703 |
Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources. With a specific focus on literary narrative, including the works of figures such as Dante, Austen, Manzoni, Tolstoy and Kundera, the author draws out the capacity of literary works to describe and represent both the external aspects of social relations and the inner motivations of the involved actors. An interdisciplinary study that combines sociology, narratology, philosophy, historical analysis and literary criticism, Emotions through Literature invites us to re-think the role of emotions in sociological analysis, employing literary narratives to give plausible intellectual responses to the double nature of emotions, their being both individual and social.
Second Thoughts
| Author | : Janet M. Ruane |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 567 |
| Release | : 2014-08-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1483300013 |
Co-authored by Karen A. Cerulo, the Eastern Sociological Society’s Robin L. Williams Lecturer for 2013-2014 Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? Is honesty the best policy? Are children our most precious commodity? Is education the great equalizer? Adages like these shape our social life. This Sixth Edition of Second Thoughts reviews several popular beliefs and notes how these conventional wisdoms cannot be taken at face value, but instead require careful second thoughts. This unique text encourages students to step back and sharpen their analytic focus with 25 essays that use social research to expose the gray areas of commonly held beliefs, revealing the complexity of social reality and sharpening students’ sociological vision.
The Short Writings of Nelson Algren
| Author | : Richard F. Bales |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2022-09-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476647097 |
Nelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although he continues to be remembered almost exclusively for his novels, this book aims to highlight the value and influence of his short form works. Before he died in 1981, Algren had amassed a genre-defying body of work, including short stories, articles, poems and book reviews. The present book features a comprehensive analysis and discussion of Algren's lost literature, including everything but his novels. One of the pieces covered is a masterpiece of race relations written in 1950, more than 60 years before the galvanization of the Black Lives Matter movement. Another is a scathing poem about Algren's transatlantic love affair with Simone de Beauvoir. Both items are reprinted in the book courtesy of the Algren estate. This book also includes references to Algren's works that have yet to be studied by Algren scholars.
Atlantic Automobilism
| Author | : Gijs Mom |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 768 |
| Release | : 2014-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782383786 |
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.” Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
Fiction as Research Practice
| Author | : Patricia Leavy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2016-06-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1315428482 |
Patricia Leavy, herself both a highly published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience, including a methodological introduction and five stories showing these methods in action.
