Social Research: Strategy and Tactics

Politics & Social Sciences

Phillips, Bernard S

Social Sciences

MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc.

Sociology, from Concepts to Practice

McGraw-Hill Companies

Sociological research methods: An introduction (The Dorsey series in sociology)

Dorsey Press

Goffman Unbound! (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham University "Scheff's critical eye is equal to his subject, shrewdly appreciating Goffman's many virtues while also showing where and how Goffman's thinking needs revision and development. This original and provocative book offers a fresh interpretation of Goffman and will become a benchmark for all subsequent commentary." Greg Smith, University of Salford One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually invisible to us. Goffman's genius was to recognize and describe this world as no one had before. The book synthesizes prior scholarly commentary on Goffman's work, and includes biographical material from his life, untangling some of the many puzzles in Goffman's work and life. Scheff also proposes ways of filling gaps and false starts. One chapter explores the meaning of the emotion of love, another of hatred. These and other new directions could facilitate the creation of a microsocial science that unveils the emotional/relational world.

Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

Kincaid, Harold

Scheff, Thomas J.

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists. They find substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an alternative worldview can work to close that gap.

The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

Johnston, Louis C.

The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions (Advancing the Sociological Imagination Series)

Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination (Advancing the Sociological Imagination Series)

Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.

Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.

Armageddon or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.

We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.

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Social Research: Strategy and Tactics

Sociology, from Concepts to Practice

Sociological research methods: An introduction (The Dorsey series in sociology)

Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society: Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions (Advancing the Sociological Imagination Series)

Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination (Advancing the Sociological Imagination Series)

Armageddon or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)

Armageddon or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)