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1st Edition

For Sociology Legacies and Prospects

Edited By John Eldridge Copyright 2001
218 Pages
by sociologypress

218 Pages
by sociologypress

218 Pages
by sociologypress
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First published in 2001. For Sociology is not the dogmatic stand of a single discipline against the tide of interdisciplinarity. Rather it is an attempt to explore the nature of sociological argument and the relationship of sociology both to the natural sciences and other social sciences, as well as assessing its role in understanding the complexities of the contemporary world. The essays in... Read more

Overview 1 The new positivity 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument 3 For sociology, Gouldner’s and ours 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and Imperialism 5 For a sociological feminism 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century 7 Work and its narratives 8 Sociology and the Third Way 9 Memory, violence and identity 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map

Biography

John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively in the fields of industrial sociology and the sociology of the mass media.

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