Format:
1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9781472419897
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1472419898
,
9781317055365
,
1317055365
,
9781315608990
,
1315608995
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9781317055358
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1317055357
Series Statement:
Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge
Content:
Notes on interviewees -- Preface -- Introduction: practicing social science -- Declarations and dilemmas -- Discipline, career, profession : sociology in practitioners' lives -- Community proclamations : outlining professionalism -- How does social transformation happen? -- Theorizing globalization -- Social change in a nutshell : the BRICS and echoes from the Islamic world -- Practitioners and their craft -- Interviewing colleagues -- The interviews -- Subtleties of practice : continuities and small shifts -- Postword: recapitulation with clues for designing further inquiry.
Content:
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 sociologists 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 underrepresented in English publications, such as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Analysis focuses on changes which are becoming clear from the ongoing 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472419880
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah Practicing social science New York : Routledge, 2017
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315608990
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315608990
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Author information:
Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah 1929-
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