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Author : S. S. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131100394
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sociology Critiques And Backgrounds written by S. S. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted R. Vaughan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781882289028
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology written by Ted R. Vaughan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1 Part I: Introduction Chapter 2 The Crisis in Contemporary American Sociology: A Critique of the Discipline's Dominant Paradigm Chapter 3 The Bureaucratization of Sociology: Its Impact on Theory and Research Chapter 4 Ethnicity and Gender: The View from Above versus the View from Below Part 5 Part II: Introduction Chapter 6 Bureaucratic Secrets and Adversarial Methods of Social Research Chapter 7 Sociologist as Citizen-Scholar: A Symbolic Interactionist Alternative to Normal Sociology Chapter 8 The Rise of the Wisconsin School of Status-Attainment Research Chapter 9 Academic Labor Markets and the Sociology Temporary Chapter 10 Ideology and the Celebration of Applied Sociology Chapter 11 Western Sociology and the Third World: Asymmetrical Forms of Understanding and the Inadequacy of Sociological Discourse Chapter 12 The Rise and Fall of The American Sociologist
Author : Carrigan, Mark
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529201055
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Public and Their Platforms written by Carrigan, Mark and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across multiple disciplines, this book maps out a new role for the public sociologist in the post-COVID world. It envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together “the digital” and the “physical” to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.
Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472404653
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment written by David Kreps and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, indigenous knowledges, technologies of government and the teaching of paediatrics in post-invasion Iraq, complexity theory, medical anthropology and biomedicine, and the role of Islam in the transition to modern society in the Arab world, this interdisciplinary volume presents the latest theoretical research on different facets of these two thinkers’ work, as well as analyses of the specific linkages that exist between them in concrete settings. A rigorous, comparative exploration of the work of two towering figures of the twenty-first century, Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, communication and media studies, and contemporary philosophy.
Author : Luc Boltanski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683533
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book On Critique written by Luc Boltanski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in the discipline today: the critical sociology that was developed in its most elaborate form by Pierre Bourdieu, and the pragmatic sociology of critique developed by Luc Boltanski and his associates. In critical sociology, description in terms of power relations underscores the potency of mechanisms of oppression, the way the oppressed passively endure them, going so far in their alienation as to adopt the values that enslave them. Pragmatic sociology, by contrast, describes the actions of human beings who rebel but who are endowed with reason. It stresses their ability, in certain historical conditions, to rise up against their domination and construct new interpretations of reality in the service of critical activity. In this major new book Boltanski develops a framework that makes it possible to reconcile these seemingly antagonistic approaches - the one determinist and assigning the leading role to the enlightening science of the sociologist, the other concerned to stick as closely as possible to what people say and do. This labour of unification leads him to rework central notions such as practice, institution, critique and, finally, ‘social reality,' all with the aim of contributing to a contemporary renewal of practices of emancipation.
Author : Randall Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549784
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Credential Society written by Randall Collins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.
Author : Aart C. Liefbroer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030673456
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons written by Aart C. Liefbroer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that societies offer to diminish the adverse impact of economic and social deprivation. The book integrates a longitudinal approach and provides new insights in how the experience of childhood disadvantage (e.g. low parental socio-economic status, family disruption) influences demographic decisions in adulthood (e.g. the timing of family-events such as cohabitation, marriage or parenthood; the risk of divorce or having a child outside a partner relationship; the exposure to later-life loneliness, poor health, and economic adversity). Moreover, using a cross-national comparative perspective it investigates whether the relationships of interest differ across nations, and tests the “context of opportunities” hypothesis arguing that the links between childhood disadvantage and adult outcomes are weakened in societal contexts offering good opportunities for people to escape situations of deprivation. To do so, the book analyzes national contexts based on economic prosperity, family values and norms, and welfare-state arrangements.
Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509527141
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book What is Digital Sociology? written by Neil Selwyn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital. Blending theory and empirical examples, the five chapters highlight areas of inquiry where digital approaches are taking hold and shaping the discipline of sociology today. The book explores key topics such as digital race and digital labor, as well as the fast-changing nature of digital research methods and diversifying forms of digital scholarship. Designed for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, this timely introduction will be an invaluable resource for all sociologists seeking to focus their craft and thinking toward the social complexities of the digital age.
Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689334
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Sociology, Capitalism, Critique written by Hartmut Rosa and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded diagnosis of society’s ills. The authors, Germany’s leading critical sociologists—Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa—share a conviction that ours is a pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working to prevent any regressive development that might return us to neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society’s future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation in the institutional practices of the academy. These three differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in capitalism’s post-crisis phase.
Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689326
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Sociology, Capitalism, Critique written by Hartmut Rosa and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded diagnosis of society’s ills. The authors, Germany’s leading critical sociologists—Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa—share a conviction that ours is a pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working to prevent any regressive development that might return us to neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society’s future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation in the institutional practices of the academy. These three differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in capitalism’s post-crisis phase.
Author : Christopher G. A. Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113503673X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals) written by Christopher G. A. Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – and four contemporary developments or revisions of them – the sociologie active of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in Socialist Poland, the work of Dahrendorf and the ‘new sociology’ of Mills and his successors. Christopher Bryant suggests that no neutral language exists in which to compare the characteristics of these different paradigms, yet highlights those features which are common to all of them. Unique in its approach and analysis of the relationship between sociology and action, this book is of value and interest to students of sociology and theory and professional sociologists.
Author : Mark Walsh
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748777174
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Sociology for Health Carers written by Mark Walsh and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides readers with a real grounding for Foundation studies across healthcare disciplines. The text demonstrates how theory has a practical application, as well as testing student's knowledge.
Author : Tom B. Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923160
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Sociology as Social Criticism (Routledge Revivals) written by Tom B. Bottomore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twentieth century. There is a close unity of theme througout the book in its critical attempt to formulate new intellectual bases for future radical and egalitarian politics. It is written with that quiet wisdom and impressive command of sources which readers have come to associate with Professor Bottomore's work.
Author : Radhika Gorur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831966
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education written by Radhika Gorur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including pragmatist critical sociology, neo-Marxism, post-digital sociology, new materialisms, affirmative critique of education, and post-colonial studies, the chapters in this book engage in a novel, collective dialogue and reflection on the affordances, limitations and challenges of emerging social theories in contemporary education. The book further justifies this novel approach through inclusion of a series of interviews with leading scholars and thinkers from within and outside the field of education on the subject of critique in contemporary society and education. The book offers relevant global and decolonial perspectives to study current transformations, drawing on innovations in theorizing and empirical illustrations from different countries. Highlighting alternative visions of these transformations in an era of globalization, fragmentation, and growing nationalism, this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, the philosophy of education, social theory, political science and comparative policy and politics more broadly.
Author : Harry H. Bash
Publisher : New York : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sociology, Race, and Ethnicity written by Harry H. Bash and published by New York : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an analysis of American assimilation theory Bash attempts to dissect the concept and what it has come to mean in the United States. After tracing the "natural history" of the assimilation notion and later its theoretical elaboration, he explores far more theoretical linkages by way of concept formation and theory construction in the area of racial and ethnic group relations.
Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
ISBN 13 : 0525567631
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book MCAT Psychology and Sociology Review, 3rd Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for the newest edition of this title, The Princeton Review MCAT Psychology and Sociology Review, 4th Edition (ISBN: 9780593516225, on-sale November 2022). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Author : Patrick Michel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420928X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion written by Patrick Michel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?
