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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge |
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Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge.
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Cover; Endrosements; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on interviewees; Preface; Introduction: Practicing social science ; Part I Declarations and dilemmas; 1 Discipline, career, profession: Sociology in practitioners' lives ; Sociology: dawning of a discipline implicated in social issues; Sociology: from discipline to career; Sociology as a profession; Sociology as a craft; Notes; 2 Community proclamations: Outlining professionalism ; Establishing professional associations; International associations; National associations |
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Outlining sociological tasksA cluster of ASA presidents; Messages from presidents of the ISA; Concluding remarks; Notes; 3 How does social transformation happen?; Salience of social change; Theorizing and explaining change; Shifting social relations: agency and institutions; Agency and its effects on structures; Agency as a derivative of structure; Structural political change through agency; From modernity to globality?; Notes; 4 Theorizing globalization; Globalization as continuity; Globalization as the making of a new era; Institutional factors; Comprehensive analyses |
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Evaluations of globalizationParadigms of globality?; Post-colonialism as the source of a new paradigm; Actor-Network-Theory; Extended case method; Mode 2 research, and the vision of transdisciplinarity; Concluding remarks; Notes; 5 Social change in a nutshell: The BRICS and echoes from the Islamic world ; BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and finally South Africa, too; The Arab/Islamic world; Concluding remarks; Notes; Part II Practitioners and their craft; 6 Interviewing colleagues; Choosing interviewees; Content; Means and media; How the texts were produced; 7 The interviews; 7A Brazil |
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Simon Schwartzman, October 30, 2013, Rio de JaneiroSelected references; Maria Ligia Barbosa, August 29, 2013, Rio de Janeiro; Selected references; João Bachur, November 27, 2013, Berlin; Selected references; 7B Russia; David Konstantinovskiy; Selected references; Anna Temkina, February 16, 2014, St. Petersburg; Selected references; Note; 7C From the Chinese world; Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, April 9, 2014, Taipei; Selected references; Agnes Shu-. Kei Ku, January 16, 2014, Hong Kong; Selected references; Xiangqun Chang, SOAS and CCPN Global, London; Selected references; Note; 7D South Africa |
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Johan Muller, August 8, 2013, Cape Town, South AfricaSelected references; Tina Uys, December 4, 2013, Johannesburg; Selected references; Mariam Seedat Khan, August 12, 2013, Durban; Selected references; Note; 7E From the Islamic world; Habibul Haque Khondker, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam (while participating in a conference); Selected references; Çigdem Adem, August 8, 2013, Copenhagen; Selected references; Notes; 8 Subtleties of practice: Continuities and small shifts ; Looking for signs of change; Scope; Education and training; Topics of research; Methods; Modes of working |
| Notes |
What doing sociology is for |
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Print version record |
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Sociology -- History -- 21st century
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Sociology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317055358 |
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1317055357 |
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