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Book Synopsis Seeing Sociologically by : Harold Garfinkel
Download or read book Seeing Sociologically written by Harold Garfinkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the increasingly influential ways studied by phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenological description, rendered in more empirical and interactive terms, might remedy shortcomings in the reigning Parsonian view. Garfinkel soon gave up the attempt to repair scientific description, and his focus became increasingly empirical until, in 1954, he famously coined the term "Ethnomethodology." However, in this early manuscript can be seen more clearly than in some of his later work the struggle with a conceptual and positivist rendering of social relations that ultimately informed Garfinkel's position. Here we find the sources of his turn toward ethnomethodology, which would influence subsequent generations of sociologists. Essential reading for all social theory scholars and graduate students and for a wider range of social scientists in anthropology, ethnomethodology, and other fields.
Book Synopsis Seeing Social Problems by : Ira Silver
Download or read book Seeing Social Problems written by Ira Silver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the last four years, the death of George Floyd brought a new level of urgency to understanding police violence; the world experienced two of the three hottest years on record; drug overdose deaths in the U.S. surpassed 100,000 per year for the first time; the foreign-born percentage of the population became the highest ever; and COVID-19 transformed education, work, and public health. Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues, Second Edition shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by exploring the connection between their own experiences and larger social forces. The personal relevance of this book’s content is at the forefront of every discussion. Chapters engage students in thinking about the world sociologically by focusing on case studies that represent broader social problems. In each chapter, learning objectives attune students to important concepts. Two sets of discussion questions— “First Impressions” and “What Do You Know Now?” — encourage students to recognize how the chapter has broadened their perspectives. An exploration of social policy at the end of each chapter shows students that how someone understands an issue influences the ways they go about addressing it. New to the Second Edition: - New chapter, “LGBTQ+ People and Their Critics,” explores different ways of understanding growing diversity in American society based on gender identity and sexual orientation - New chapter, “Education and Upward Mobility,” encourages readers to think more expansively about their schooling experiences, starting when they were very young and continuing through college - New chapter, “Immigration and Border Security,” exposes competing ways of seeing the rising influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico - New chapter, “Health and the Environment,” draws on discussion about familiar topics including Covid-19, obesity, and climate change - New chapter, “Technology and Instant Pleasure” motivates students to recognize the wider societal impacts of their frequent usage of mobile devices to make life more convenient
Book Synopsis Epistemology and Practice by : Anne Warfield Rawls
Download or read book Epistemology and Practice written by Anne Warfield Rawls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought. Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.
Book Synopsis Social Work Theories and Methods by : Mel Gray
Download or read book Social Work Theories and Methods written by Mel Gray and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world′s leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers in social work to challenge the reader to critically question how they think about social work. The new edition includes a focus on the psychosocial perspective, with three new chapters on: - Cognitive behavioural approaches - Attachment theory and psychoanalytic social work - Ecological approaches Each chapter allows the reader to relate the theories and methods discussed to their own personal experiences. This reader friendly book includes student questions, glossaries and recommended reading so that students and practitioners can reappraise and expand the knowledge they have learned. This book will be valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in social work theory and research methods, social work interventions and perspectives as well as post qualifying students and researchers in social work.
Book Synopsis Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research by : A. Mubi Brighenti
Download or read book Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research written by A. Mubi Brighenti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects.
Book Synopsis Structural Lie by : Charles C. Lemert
Download or read book Structural Lie written by Charles C. Lemert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Structural Lie tackles one of social science's most mysterious problems. How is it possible to derive statements about the grand structures of social life from their effects in the small movements of everyday life? Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert shows how Marx and Freud provide some answers to this question. Marx derived from the commodity his picture of the capitalist system, Freud diagnosed the character of psyches from the details of dreams, slips and jokes. This wonderfully readable and engaging book lays the foundation for a new social science in an age where a microchip can convey a world of information.
Book Synopsis Seeing and Unseeing Social Structure by : Lynn Michelle Mulkey
Download or read book Seeing and Unseeing Social Structure written by Lynn Michelle Mulkey and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *HH06, Seeing and Unseeing Social Structure: Sociology's Essential Insights, Lynn M. Mulkey(Hofstra University), H4881-2, 200 pp., 6 x 9, 0-205-14881-6, paperbound, 1995, $10.00nk, December*/This book provides a concise yet comprehensive statement of sociology's contribution, giving equal importance to the role of sociology in understanding the human condition and as a way of thinking about the world. It uses current information on social issues such as drugs and substance abuse, crime, etc., to illuminate the social determinants of our behavior.
Download or read book Sociology written by David M. Newman and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes students inside today's pressing sociological issues and shows them how the compelling events on their minds--such as the current economic recession and the Obama presidency--relate to enduring sociological concepts -- from cover.
Download or read book Harold Garfinkel written by Dirk vom Lehn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed ethnomethodology under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz, situates it within sociology generally, and demonstrates its important influence on recent developments in the discipline, particularly the sociology of science and technology, gender studies, organization studies, and the computer sciences. The book will be of wide interest in the social sciences and a useful supplement to courses on intellectual history and methodology.
Book Synopsis Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach by : James M Henslin
Download or read book Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach written by James M Henslin and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Henslin has always been able to share the excitement of sociology, with his acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach and personal writing style that highlight the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students' lives. Adapted for students studying within Australia, this text, now in a second edition, has been made even more relevant and engaging to students. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, the local author team share their passion for sociology, promote sociology to students and entice them to delve deeper into this exciting science. Six central themes run throughout this text: down-to-earth sociology, globalisation, cultural diversity, critical thinking, the new technology, and the growing influence of the mass media on our lives. These themes are especially useful for introducing the controversial topics that make studying sociology such a lively, exciting activity.
Book Synopsis The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory by : Bryan S. Turner
Download or read book The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory written by Bryan S. Turner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole
Book Synopsis Harold Garfinkel: Parsons' Primer by : Anne Warfield Rawls
Download or read book Harold Garfinkel: Parsons' Primer written by Anne Warfield Rawls and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Garfinkel was one of the most important American sociologists. A student of Talcott Parsons who also worked with Alfred Schutz and Kenneth Burke, he sought to craft an empirical and theoretical approach that would combine Parsons’ focus on social systems of interaction with the focus on practices in their course of Burke and Schutz. This previously unpublished manuscript titled Parsons Primer in which Garfinkel explains Parsons’ position on systems of social interaction and how it relates to Garfinkel’s own position is an important missing piece of Garfinkel’s argument. The original manuscript from 1962/63 has been edited and a new introduction written for it by Anne W. Rawls and Jason Turowetz.
Book Synopsis Everyday Sociology Reader by : Karen Sternheimer
Download or read book Everyday Sociology Reader written by Karen Sternheimer and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.
Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality by : Momin Rahman
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality written by Momin Rahman and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.
Download or read book The Sociological Imagination written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Sacks written by Robin James Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members’ actual activities – demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks’s approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks’s legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.
Book Synopsis The Sociologically Examined Life by : Michael Schwalbe
Download or read book The Sociologically Examined Life written by Michael Schwalbe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the usual introductory sociology text emphasizes defining key concepts in the field, the rigidity of this structure creates a need for a text that teaches real-world application of these concepts. The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation prides itself on being an"anti-text," a tool that demonstrates how to recognize and utilize sociological thinking in the real world. The conversational writing encourages discussion - and debate - over ideas that are provocative and personal, and pushes students to think critically about what makes them feel the way theydo. The Sociologically Examined Life draws from examples that are culturally relevant to today's students, and encourages students to apply sociological thinking to their everyday lives and to reflect on their own roles as active players in the social world.
