Social things : an introduction to the sociological life / Charles Lemert.

Author
Lemert, Charles C., 1937- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
4th ed.
Published/​Created
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008], ©2008.
Description
xviii, 231 pages ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.
    Contents
    • The Sociological Life
    • 1 Imagining Social Things, Competently 3
    • 2 Personal Courage and Practical Sociologies 17
    • 3 Practicing the Discipline of Social Things 35
    • Sociology
    • 4 Sociology and the Lost Worlds of the New World Order: 1848-1920 51
    • 5 Sociology Becomes the Science of Worldly Structures: 1920-1960 75
    • 6 Sociology Discovers Its Complicated Vocation: After 1960 91
    • Social Things
    • 7 The Mysterious Power of Social Structures 111
    • 8 The Lively Subjects of Dead Structures 131
    • 9 Well-Measured Lives in a World of Differences 149
    • Global Things
    • 10 Global Methods 169
    • 11 Global Things Queer the Social 191
    • 12 Living against the Conclusion 215.
    ISBN
    • 9780742559356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0742559351 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2008004923
    OCLC
    192109596
    RCP
    C - S
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