New Social Connections: Sociology's Subjects and Objects

ISBN-13: 9780230575981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 259 str.

Judith Burnett

Opis

This book analyzes regional and local models of development, in the context of existing socioeconomic disparities and the impact of EU enlargement and European policy, offering a comparitive and indepth analysis of the distinct nature of regional differences within Central and Eastern Europe.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

MICHAEL BANTON is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK DAVID BEER is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK GURMINDER BHAMBRA is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK ROGER BURROWS is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. JOYCE E. CANAAN is Reader in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK ERIKA CUDWORTH is Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of East London, UK. MAX FARRAR is Manager of Community Partnerships and Volunteering in the Leslie Silver International Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. DAVID INGLIS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. GAYLE LETHERBY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK BRUNO LATOUR teaches at Sciences Po in Paris, France GREGOR MCLENNAN is Professor of Sociology at Bristol University, UK MICHAEL RUSTIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London and Visiting Professor at the London Tavistock Clinic, UK JOHN SCOTT is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK SASKIA SASSEN is Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, USA