Full Description
How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations show to what extent a "paradigm shift" has taken root, answering questions such as whether sociology still remains a differentiated, relatively autonomous social science. The chosen interviewees are about equally divided according to gender and have been selected from among professional sociologists in different parts of the globe, with an emphasis on areas that are under-represented in English publications, such as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Analysis focuses on changes which are becoming clear from the on-going confrontation between "traditional" sociology which emerged as a project of modernity, and the sociology practiced by sociologists who are called upon to adapt the discipline to the upheavals of the twenty-first century.
Contents
NOTES ON INTERVIEWEES
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: PRACTICING SOCIAL SCIENCE
PART I: DECLARATIONS AND DILEMMAS
CHAPTER 1. DISCIPLINE, CAREER, PROFESSION: SOCIOLOGY IN PRACTITIONERS' LIVES
CHAPTER 2. COMMUNITY PROCLAMATIONS: OUTLINING PROFESSIONALISM
CHAPTER 3. HOW DOES SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION HAPPEN?
CHAPTER 4. THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION
CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL CHANGE IN A NUTSHELL: THE BRICS AND ECHOES FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD
PART II: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT
CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWING COLLEAGUES
CHAPTER 7. THE INTERVIEWS
CHAPTER 7A. BRAZIL
SIMON SCHWARTZMAN
MARIA LIGIA BARBOSA
JOÃO BACHUR
CHAPTER 7B. RUSSIA
DAVID KONSTANTINOVSKIY
ANNA TEMKINA
CHAPTER 7C. FROM THE CHINESE WORLD
HSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO
AGNES SHU-KEI KU
XIANGQUN CHANG
CHAPTER 7D. SOUTH AFRICA
JOHAN MULLER
TINA UYS
MARYAM SEEDAT KHAN
CHAPTER 7E. FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD
HABIBUL KHONDKER
ÇIĞDEM ADEM
CHAPTER 8. SUBTLETIES OF PRACTICE: CONTINUITIES AND SMALL SHIFTS
POSTWORD: RECAPITULATION WITH CLUES FOR DESIGNING FURTHER INQUIRY
REFERENCES
INDEX
