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A Poetic for Sociology

Author : Richard Harvey Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226076199
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Poetic for Sociology written by Richard Harvey Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-03-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and art—as well as the human studies that stand between them—depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form. By recognizing this "aesthetic" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge—the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane.

A Poetic for Sociology

Author : Richard H. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521293914
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book A Poetic for Sociology written by Richard H. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Poetic for Sociology

Author : Richard H. Brown
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521211215
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Poetic for Sociology written by Richard H. Brown and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-07-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Psychology and Sociology of Literature

Author : Dick H. Schram
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027222244
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology and Sociology of Literature written by Dick H. Schram and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Psychology and Sociology of Literature" is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the career of the literary author; literature and culture; literature and multicultural society, literature and the mass media; literature and the internet; and literature and history. An introduction by the editors situates the empirical study of literature within an academic context.The chapters are all invited and refereed contributions, collected to honor the scholarship and retirement of professor Elrud Ibsch, of the Free University of Amsterdam. Together they represent the state of the art in the empirical study of literature, a movement in literary studies which aims to produce reliable and valid scientific knowledge about literature as a means of verbal communication in its cultural context. Elrud Ibsch was one of the pioneers in Europe to promote this approach to literature some 25 years ago, and this volume takes stock of what has happened since."The Psychology and Sociology of Literature" presents an invaluable overview of the results, promises, gaps, and needs of the empirical study of literature. It addresses social scientists as well as scholars in the humanities who are interested in literature as discourse.

Religion as Poetry

Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493787
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Religion as Poetry written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history. Too many present-day sociologists either ignore or disparage religious currents. In this provocative book, Andrew M. Greeley argues that various religions have endured for thousands of years as poetic rituals and stories. Religion as Poetry proposes a theoretical framework for understanding religion that emphasizes insights derived from religious stories. By virtue of his own rare abilities as a novelist as well as sociologist, Greeley is uniquely qualified for this task.Greeley first considers classical theories of the sociology of religion, and then, drawing upon them, he explicates his own interpretation. He critically examines the viewpoint that society is becoming more secular, and that religion is declining. He observes that this theory stands in the way of persuading sociologists that religion is still worth studying. In contrast, Greeley is interested in why religions persist despite secular trends and alongside them. He argues that it is poetic elements that touch the human soul. Greeley then sets out to test this viewpoint.Greeley maintains that his theory is not the only, or necessarily even the best approach to study religion. Rather, it is his contention that it uniquely provides sociologists with perspectives on religion that other theories too often overlook or disregard. Religion as Poetry, an original and intriguing study by a distinguished social scientist and major novelist, will be enjoyed and evaluated by sociologists, ' theologians, and philosophers alike.

Poetry and the Sociological Idea

Author : John Powell Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Sociological Idea written by John Powell Ward and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Processual Sociology

Author : Andrew Abbott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633662X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Processual Sociology written by Andrew Abbott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking and unmaking itself, instant by instant. In 'Processual Sociology', Abbott first examines the endurance of individuals and social groups through time and then goes on to consider the question of what this means for human nature.

Liquid Sociology

Author : Dr Mark Davis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409473864
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Sociology written by Dr Mark Davis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘liquid sociology’ confronts the awesome task of reminding individual men and women that an alternative way of living together is within our eminent capabilities, if only we start to think differently about our world. The metaphor of ‘liquidity’, which has become such a prominent feature of his writings since 2000, provides us with just such a new interpretation, with a novel ‘way of seeing’. Each chapter in this unique collection takes seriously Bauman’s analysis of modernity as ‘liquid’, throwing new light upon global social problems, as well as opening up a space for assessing the nature of Bauman’s contribution to sociology, and for understanding what may be gained and lost by embracing an artistic sensibility within the social sciences. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this book will appeal to all those interested in Bauman’s work, especially within sociology, social, political and cultural theory, and to anyone curious about the value of metaphor in interpreting the social world.

The Poetic Organization

Author : A. Pitsis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137398736
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Organization written by A. Pitsis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Organization explores the inherent aspects of organization that revolve around poetic processes. This book is a commentary on poetic elements in organization that are critical to developmental areas of organizations, yet poetics are rarely given the attention deserved.

Sociology, Ethnomethodology and Experience

Author : Mary F. Rogers
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521274098
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sociology, Ethnomethodology and Experience written by Mary F. Rogers and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-11-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, first published in 1983, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology. Her broad purpose is to demonstrate the theoretical and methodological advantages phenomenological sociology holds. Thus she offers a selective, introductory exposition of phenomenology, highlighting its relevance for social scientists and undercutting the notion of phenomenology as a non-scientific, subjective, or esoteric method of study.

Sceptical Sociology (RLE Social Theory)

Author : John Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651219
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Sceptical Sociology (RLE Social Theory) written by John Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carroll contends that since 1918 sociology has distinguished itself by making society appear as dull as it is at its worst. Using barbaric jargon, legalistic syntax and vacuous statistical tables, and driven by an obsession with the humdrum, it has exhibited some of the worst traits of the culture it should have been laying bare. Sceptical Sociology examines where sociology went wrong, and what ought to be done to transform it into a worthwhile enterprise. In a series of studies of contemporary Western society, the author puts into practice the principles of a ‘sceptical sociology’. There are enquiries into the cleanliness compulsion among housewives, the conflicting dream and reality of the tourist, the moral centrality of the car, the tactics of the latest shopping palaces. There is an allegory on fur hats, a dark portrait of a typical modern marriage, a putting of intellectuals in their place, and a pursuit of the sociology of space through the universal longing for home. The author contends that sociology ought to be the important stories about a society and its times, well told. Sceptical Sociology attempts to show that it can be well done.

Poetic Inquiry

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087909519
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Inquiry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, co-edited by Monica Prendergast, Carl Leggo and Pauline Sameshima, features many of the foremost scholars working worldwide in aesthetic ways through poetry.

The Scholar Denied

Author : Aldon Morris
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286766
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Scholar Denied written by Aldon Morris and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’s ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’s work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris, a major scholar of social movements, probes the way in which the history of the discipline has traditionally given credit to Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, who worked with the conservative black leader Booker T. Washington to render Du Bois invisible. Morris uncovers the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a “scientific” sociology through a variety of methodologies and examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored Du Bois’s work. The Scholar Denied is based on extensive, rigorous primary source research; the book is the result of a decade of research, writing, and revision. In exposing the economic and political factors that marginalized the contributions of Du Bois and enabled Park and his colleagues to be recognized as the “fathers” of the discipline, Morris delivers a wholly new narrative of American intellectual and social history that places one of America’s key intellectuals, W. E. B. Du Bois, at its center. The Scholar Denied is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, racial inequality, and the academy. In challenging our understanding of the past, the book promises to engender debate and discussion.

Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory

Author : Sarah Louise MacMillen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628068
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory written by Sarah Louise MacMillen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory: Stories That Are Telling focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their connections to the insights of Classical Sociological Theory and the sociological imagination. This monograph also considers the aesthetic, sociological, and literary insights of Theodor Adorno, György Lukács, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams, Wolf Lepenies, Franco Moretti, Lucien Goldmann, and John Orr. The main chapters discuss the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The concluding chapter reflects on the dawn of modernity, especially the birth of capitalism and the plague crisis via Boccaccio’s Florence, significant to The Decameron. Throughout the text, Sarah Louise MacMillen considers these “stories that are telling” in light of social issues today. She presents a case for highlighting the authors of the past, wherein these fictional accounts anticipate some of our contemporary social problems and social movements. These dynamics include the environmental crisis, the effects of globalization, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, “cancel culture,” debates about gender nonconformity, and secularization. Finally, MacMillen reflects on the need for solidarity in shifting patterns of social existence and rebuilding post-COVID.

Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

Author : Philip Manning
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074566766X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology written by Philip Manning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve. This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his very earliest work right up to the projects upon which he was engaged at the time of his death. Goffman's writings, Manning argues, are much more systematic and conceptually powerful than is ordinarily acknowledged. The book thus offers a defence of Goffman's writings as well as providing an introduction for those who have no prior acquaintance with Goffman's ideas.

Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996)

Author : Paul Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351202219
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996) written by Paul Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1996, this book comprises a number of essays by Paul Atkinson in which he reflects on processes of reading and writing in the social sciences. Topics covered include: ethnographers’ ‘confessions’, an analysis of the style of Erving Goffman, a reflection of his own experiences of re-reading work, and a discussion of the challenges of reading an alien discipline. This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues.

The Aesthetics of Power

Author : Claire Keyes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333514
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Power written by Claire Keyes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When still a senior at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich was selected as a Yale Younger Poet. The judge, W.H. Auden, wrote the introduction to her first book of poems. Thus Rich's career was launched by one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century, someone Rich herself admired and emulated. Adrienne Rich's early mentors were men, and her early poetry consequently adopted a strong male persona. In her development as artist, woman, and activist, however, Rich emerged as a leading voice of modern feminism--a voice which rejects a male-dominated world, forcing new definitions of power, new possibilities for women, and profound repercussions for society. In The Aesthetics of Power, Claire Keyes examines the shape and scope of Rich's poetry as it applies to Rich's female aesthetic. Keyes uncovers the process by which Rich embraces, then rejects, accepted uses of power, achieving a vision of beneficent female power. In her early poems, Adrienne Rich accepts certain traditions associated with the divisions of power according to sex. Later, Rich continually defines and redefines power until she can reject power-as-force (patriarchal power) for the power-to-transform, which, for her, is the truly significant and essential power. Surveying Rich's poetry and prose from 1951 to the present, this book traces the development of Adrienne Rich's new understanding of the power of the poet and the power of woman. Sharing Rich's feminist sensibilities, yet at times critical of her more radical positions, Claire Keyes draws a portrait of an artist who was molded by the complex political and social climate of post-World War II America. It is a portrait that reveals the creative growth of an artist, and the personal growth of a powerful and controversial woman.