Required reading: sociology's most influential books
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst University of Massachusetts Press 1998
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Canon and anti-canon for fragmented discipline /Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman --Best-sellers by American sociologists: an exploratory study /Herbert J. Gans --How to become a dominant American social scientist: the case of Theda Skocpol /Jeff Goodwin --Historicization of protest as a route to general theory: stepping back to move forward /Roger V. Gould --Discipline and punish: the birth of a postmodern middle-range /Jonathan Simon --Charles Murray: Losing ground, gaining power /Theodore J. Lowi and Gwendolyn Mink.
Doing it ourselves /Barry Wellman --Geertz's ambiguous legacy /Ann Swidler --Sociology's other poststructuralism /Craig Calhoun --Gary Becker on the family: his genius, impact, and blind spots /Paula England and Michelle J. Budig --Emotion management as emotional labor /Lynn Smith-Lovin --Models of influence /David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden --Classic of its time /Michael Burawoy --What's gender got to do with it? /Christine L. Williams --Promethean sociology /Harriet Friedmannn.
What's race got to do with it? /Aldon Morris --Empire and knowledge: more troubles, new opportunities for sociology /Steven Seidman --Gendering of social theory: sociology and its discontents /Barbara Laslett --Feminist subversions /Linda Gordon and Barrie Thorne --Sociological politics and Contemporary Sociology's ten most influential books /Gerald Marwell --Taking the list as it stands: what does it say about sociology today? /Rachel A. Rosenfeld --Who's in? Who's out? /Charles Lemert.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:0585083290