Charles Lemert

Social Things (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to the Sociological Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers for introducing the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations. This fifth edition is fresh: the history of sociology section is updated to incorporate new discussions of the way sociological ideas have spread into numerous other fields to inform the new post-disciplinary social theory; the book now includes original yet practically vivid presentations of globalization, queer theory, critical race theory, and much else; and an entirely new chapter, "Global Things on a Fragile Planet," addresses the environmental crises that challenge our global world. Lemert focuses on man-made disasters like the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in 2010 and natural tragedies like the 2011 earthquakes and tsunami in Japan in which the fragility of organized human life and the sociological incompetence of many social structures are dramatically illustrated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881850937
• Artikelnr.: 75142315

Autorenporträt

Charles Lemert is university professor and John C. Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and senior fellow of the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Why Niebuhr Matters, The Structural Lie, Globalization: A Reader (edited with Anthony Elliott, Daniel Chafee, and Eric Hsu), and The New Individualism (with Anthony Elliott).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Introduction
The Sociological Life
Chapter 1: Imagining Social Things, Competently
Chapter 2: Personal Courage and Practical Sociologies
Chapter 3: Practicing the Discipline of Social Things
Sociology
Chapter 4: Sociology and Lost Worlds of A New World Order: 1848 - 1920
Chapter 5: Sociology Becomes a Science of Structures: 1920 - 1960
Chapter 6: Sociology Reaches Out Into the World: 1968 - 2000s
Social Things
Chapter 7: The Mysterious Power of Social Structures
Chapter 8: The Lively Subjects of Dead Structures
Chapter 9: Well-Measured Lives in a World of Differences
Global Things
Chapter 10: Global Methods
Chapter 11: Global Things on a Fragile Planet
Chapter 12: Living against the Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author