Full Description
This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today.
Contents
1. Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination; John Eldridge PART I: SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND INDUSTRY 2. Exploring an Industrial Structure of Feeling: Creating Industrial Gemeinschaft in a Twentieth Century Workplace; Tim Strangleman 3. John Eldridge's Adventures with Cross-classification in the Sociology of Work; Tony Elger 4. 'When all Hell Breaks Loose': Striking on the British Coalfields 1984-85; Huw Beynon 5. False Self Employment; Howard Davis PART II: SOCIAL THEORY 6. On the (Alternative) Worlds that we have lost: Sociology and the Third Way Revisited; Matt Dawson 7. The Media and Collective Memory: the Obituaries of Academics; Bridget Fowler 8. The Humanitarian Crisis in Sociology; John MacInnes PART III: SOCIOLOGY OF THE MEDIA 9. Sociology, Propaganda and Psychological Operations; David Miller 10. Sociology of the Media: Towards an Ideal Journalistic Practice; Giuliana Tiripelli 11. Sociology and Journalism: the Search for an Historical Imagination; Kevin Williams 12. The Martian Invasion and the Sociological Imagination; Brian Winston Conclusion. Stretching the Sociological Imagination in the Neoliberal Academy; Matt Dawson; Bridget Fowler; David Miller; Andrew Smith Appendix. Bibliography of the Writings of John Eldridge
