The sociological imagination /
In this book, the author set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. The book took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The author's view is...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The promise
- 2. Grand theory
- 3. Abstracted empiricism
- 4. Types of practicality
- 5. The bureaucratic ethos
- 6. Philosophies of science
- 7. The human variety
- 8. Uses of history
- 9. On reason and freedom
- 10. On politics
- Appendix : on intellectual craftsmanship
- Acknowledgments
- Afterword / Todd Gitlin
- Index.