The Sociological Imagination
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789350027639
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The New Sociological Imagination
Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2006-02-07
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1446228436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC. Wright Mills′ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, the book is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students in the 21st century? This is the task that Steve Fuller sets himself in this major new invitation to study Sociology. The book: Critically examines the history of the social sciences to discover what the key contributions of sociology have been and how relevant they remain. Demonstrates how biological and sociological themes have been intertwined from the beginning of both disciplines, from the 19th century to the present day. Covers virtually all of sociology′s classic theorists and themes. Provides a glossary of key thinkers and concepts. This book sets the agenda for imagining sociology in the 21st century and will attract students and professionals alike.
C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
Author: John Scott
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013-11-29
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1782540032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith renowned international contributors and expert contributions from a range of specialisms, this book will appeal to academics, students and researchers of sociology.
College and Society
Author: Stephen Sweet
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief book that uses examples from a college or university setting to illustrate society in terms of social groups and forces. College and Society is based on the premise that colleges are not "ivory towers" that stand in contrast to the larger society. Rather, the author argues that colleges tend to reflect many of the same social structures, culturally based expectations of social conduct, and patterns of interaction seen at work in the larger society. For anyone interested in learning basic concepts of Sociology.
On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination
Author: Everett C. Hughes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-09-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780226359724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writings in this volume highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of the discipline. Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained attention to occupations as a field for study and wrote frequently and searchingly about them. Several of the essays in this collection helped orient the first generation of Black sociologists, including Franklin Frazier, St. Clair Drake, and Horace Cayton.
Enriching the Sociological Imagination
Author: Rhonda F. Levine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1317260406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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.
Biography and the Sociological Imagination
Author: Michael J. Shanahan
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780393976083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography and the Sociological Imagination introduces readers to life course sociology, the imaginative framework with which people can think about how their lives reflect the imprint of society, how this imprint reflects the intersection of social changes and personal development, and how these processes are greatly complicated by each person's unique location in society.
Ghostly Matters
Author: Avery F. Gordon
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008-02-29
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1452913862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles Lemert Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations. Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.
Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination
Author: DALE. DANNEFER
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780367190880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining foundational principles of critical social science with recent breakthroughs in research across disciplines ranging from biology to economics, this book offers a scientifically and humanly expanded landscape for apprehending the life course.
The Stickup Kids
Author: Randol Contreras
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0520273370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRandol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
