New Social Connections: Sociology’s Subjects and Objects

✍ Scribed by Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers, Graham Thomas (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on, Disciplinarity and Intellectual Specialisation....Pages 14-30
Nouns and Verbs: Old and New Strategies for Sociology....Pages 31-53
Sociological Theory: Still Going Wrong?....Pages 54-71
A Plea for Earthly Sciences....Pages 72-84
Complexity, ‘Nature’ and Social Domination: Towards a Sociology of Species Relations....Pages 85-104
The Death of History in British Sociology: Presentism, Intellectual Entrepreneurship, and the Conundra of Historical Consciousness....Pages 105-124
Sociology and Post-colonialism: Another ‘Missing’ Revolution?....Pages 125-140
Towards a Multiplication of Specialised Assemblages of Territory, Authority, and Rights....Pages 141-153
The Changing Life-Course in British Sociology....Pages 154-172
Aspirations and Opportunities: A Career in Sociology....Pages 173-179
Cracking the Ivory Tower: Proposing ‘an Interpretive Public Sociology’....Pages 180-203
Sand in the Machine: Encouraging Academic Activism with Sociology HE Students Today....Pages 204-232
The Sociological Imagination As Popular Culture....Pages 233-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-259

✦ Subjects

Structural Geology;Social Theory;Methodology of the Social Sciences;Social Structure, Social Inequality;Popular Science in Education;Sociology, general