Sociological Work: Method and Substance

ISBN-13: 9781138533196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 357 str.

Fanny Ginor; Howard S. Becker

Opis

Howard S. Becker is a leading contemporary sociologist who interprets society as collective action and sociology, therefore, as the study of collective action. This volume explores the theory and methods necessary to study collective action and social interaction

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PREFACE

PART I PROBLEMS OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD

1 On Methodology

2 Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation

3 Field Work Evidence

4 The Life History and the Scientific Mosaic

5 Social Observation and Social Case Studies

6 The Nature of a Profession

7 Problems in the Publication of Field Studies

8 Whose Side Are We On?

PART II EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND EXPERIENCES

9 Social-Class Variations in the Teacher-Pupil Relationship

10 The Teacher in the Authority System of the Public School

11 The Career of the Chicago Public School Teacher

12 The Elements of Identification with an Occupation (with James Carper)

13 The Development of Identification with an Occupation (with James Carper)

14 Adjustment of Conflicting Expectations in the Development of Identification with an Occupation (with James Carper)

15 Schools and Systems of Social Status

16 Noncollege Youth

PART III THE PROCESSES OF PERSONAL CHANGE

17 Careers, Personality and Adult Socialization (with Anselm L. Strauss)

18 Notes on the Concept of Commitment

19 Personal Change in Adult Life

20 The Self and Adult Socialization

PART IV DEVIANCE

21 History, Culture and Subjective Experience: An Exploration of the Social Bases of Drug-Induced Experiences

22 Conventional Crime: Rationalizations and Punishment

23 Deviance and Deviates

INDEX

O autorze

Fanny Ginor