Format:
vi, 517 Seiten ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-228-00671-8
,
978-0-228-00670-1
Content:
"Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. Despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the practice with skepticism. Canadian Sociologists in the First Person is the first book to survey the Canadian sociological imagination through personal recollections. Exploring the lives and experiences of twenty contributors from across the country, this book connects the unique and shared features of their careers to broad social dynamics while providing a guide to their own research and administrative contributions to their universities, their profession, and their broader society and communities. The contributors teach in different types of institutions, are prominent in the discipline and in their specializations, and represent significant and diverse intellectual currents, political perspectives, and life and career experiences. Aiming to start a broad conversation about what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century."--
Note:
Marginality, Structure, Agency: A Slow Learner Confronts Sociology / Robert J. Brym -- Adventures of a Chronic Meanderer / Axel van den Berg -- The Contested Profession: A Sociological Autobiography / Scott Davies -- Choices and Non-Choices / Susan A. Daniel -- A Career Based on Coincidence / Ralph Matthews -- Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Interdisciplinary Travels of a Political Sociologist / Daniel Béland -- Studying the War in the Woods and Other Environmental Controversies from the Left Coast / David B. Tindal -- From West Coast to East Coast, from Activism to Academia / Mark C.J. Stoddart -- Reflections on a Sociological Career: An Academic Autobiography / Wallace Clement -- How Do We Know What We Know? A Feminist Life and Times in Canadian Sociology / Meg Luxton -- From Ugly American to Critical Sociologist--in Five Decades / William K. Carroll -- Learning Sociology: A Participant's Perspective / Pat Armstrong -- Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Becoming a Sociologist / Reza Nakhaie -- My Favourite Problems / Metta Spencer -- From Residential School to University Professor / Cora J. Voyageur -- "I Know You Are, But What Am I?": Race, Nation, and the Everyday / Sarita Srivastava -- "What the ___ Are You Going to Do with Sociology?": Race, Community, and Professional Life / Carl E. James -- On Becoming a Professional Stranger / Will C. van den Hoonaard -- Before Cultural Studies Became a Buzzword / Stephen Harold Riggins -- In a Strange Nation in My Nation Itself / Jean-Philippe Warren
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780228007746
Language:
English
Keywords:
Soziologe
;
Soziologie
;
Autobiografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographies
;
History
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