The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century write by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman. This book was released on 2012-04-20. The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is an important and thought-provoking collection of contemporary articles on the current crisis in social theory." - Professor Roger Penn, Lancaster University "With a comprehensive vision, great sociologists from around the world address the challenges of the new century." - Professor Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley Over the past century, the field of sociology has experienced extraordinary expansion and vitality. But is this growth positive or negative - a promise of diversity or a threat of fragmentation? This critical volume explores the meaning of sociology and sociological knowledge in light of the recent growth and institutionalization of the discipline. A stellar group of international authors powerfully identify, question, and transform key assumptions in sociology. Leading us through the challenges faced by sociology, and the possible strategies for addressing them in the future, the book includes key issues such as: globalization development social policy inequality. An important companion for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers engaged with contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge and sociological analysis.
The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century
The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century write by Ann B. Denis. This book was released on 2012. The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical volume explores the meaning of sociology and sociological knowledge in light of the recent growth and institutionalization of the discipline. A stellar group of international authors powerfully identify, question, and transform key assumptions in sociology.
Sociology in the 21st Century
Sociology in the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology in the 21st Century write by . This book was released on 2014. Sociology in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory
Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory write by Seth Abrutyn. This book was released on 2016-06-22. Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book presents sociologists with new ways of conceptualizing the organization and presentation of sociological theory. At the heart of this Handbook’s vision is the twin goals of making theory a viable enterprise by reconceptualizing how we teach theory and keeping theory closely tied to its empirical applications. Three strategies are offered: (1) Elucidating how classic issues like integration or interaction are interrogated today; (2) Presenting a coherent vision of the social levels of reality that theorists work on such as communities, groups, and the self as well as how the coherence of these levels speaks to the macro-micro link; and, (3) Theorizing the social world rather than celebrating theorists or theories; that is, one can look at how theory is used holistically to understand the constraints the social world places on our lived experience or the dynamics of social change. Hence, in the second decade of the 21st century, it has become clear that sociology is at a crossroads as the number of theorists and amount of theory available is increasingly unmanageable and unknowable by the vast majority of professionals and students. As such, this Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory presents the novice and the expert with the a roadmap for traversing this crossroad and building a more coherent, robust, and cumulative sociology.
Practicing Social Science
Practicing Social Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practicing Social Science write by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Practicing Social Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations show to what extent a "paradigm shift" has taken root, answering questions such as whether sociology still remains a differentiated, relatively autonomous social science. The chosen interviewees are about equally divided according to gender and have been selected from among professional sociologists in different parts of the globe, with an emphasis on areas that are under-represented in English publications, such as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Analysis focuses on changes which are becoming clear from the on-going confrontation between "traditional" sociology which emerged as a project of modernity, and the sociology practiced by sociologists who are called upon to adapt the discipline to the upheavals of the twenty-first century.
