Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times - Brossura

Dandaneau, Dr. Steven P.

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ISBN 10: 0761987037 ISBN 13: 9780761987031

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Riassunto

This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own.

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Contenuti:

Sociology, or, Imaginative Reflections from Empirically Damaged Life
PART ONE: DEVELOPING AN ORIENTATION TO SELF AND SOCIETY
The Big Picture, or, a Brief Survey of Our Dying World
The Small Picture, or, Yesterday's Dystopias as Today's Everyday Life
Toward a Postmodern Sociological Imagination and a Sociological Imagination for Postmodern Times
PART TWO: APPLYING THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: THREE MODELS
A Wrong Child
Analyzing the Unanalyzable
Generation X
A Phantom Subject
Religion and Society
Of Gods and Demons
PART THREE: THE SOCIAL FORCES WORKING AGAINST THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
The Degradation of the Public Sphere
The End of History
Sociology without Society
PART FOUR: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
Epilogue
Sociology as Critical Theory of Society

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• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761987037
• ISBN 13: 9780761987031
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288