Full Description
Offering a fresh approach to new explorations of the reconfigurations of sociological thought, this book provides a mix of literature review, original theory and autobiographical material in order to understand formations of sociological knowledge.
Contents
Introduction; J.Burnett, S.Jeffers & G.Thomas Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on, Disciplinarity and Intellectual Specialisation; J. Scott Nouns and Verbs: Old and New Strategies for Sociology; M.Rustin Sociological Theory: Still Going Wrong?; G.McLennan A Plea for Earthly Sciences; B.Latour Complexity, 'Nature' and Social Domination: Towards a Sociology of Species Relations; E.Cudworth The Death of History in British Sociology: Presentism, Intellectual Entrepreneurship and the Conundra of Historical Consciousness; D.Inglis Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another 'Missing' Revolution?; G.K.Bhambra Towards a Multiplication of Specialized Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights; S.Sassen The Changing Life-Course in British Sociology; G.Letherby Aspirations and Opportunities: A Career in Sociology; M.Banton Cracking the Ivory Tower: Proposing 'an interpretive public sociology'; M.Farrar Sand in the Machine: Encouraging Academic Activism with Sociology HE Students Today; J.Canaan The Sociological Imagination as Popular Culture; D.Beer & R.Burrows
