Practicing Social Science

Sociologists and their Craft
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-1988-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

Reihe: Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations show to what extent a "paradigm shift" has taken root, answering questions such as whether sociology still remains a differentiated, relatively autonomous social science. The chosen interviewees are about equally divided according to gender and have been selected from among professional sociologists in different parts of the globe, with an emphasis on areas that are under-represented in English publications, such as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Analysis focuses on changes which are becoming clear from the on-going confrontation between "traditional" sociology which emerged as a project of modernity, and the sociology practiced by sociologists who are called upon to adapt the discipline to the upheavals of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

NOTES ON INTERVIEWEES

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: PRACTICING SOCIAL SCIENCE

PART I: DECLARATIONS AND DILEMMAS

CHAPTER 1. DISCIPLINE, CAREER, PROFESSION: SOCIOLOGY IN PRACTITIONERS' LIVES

CHAPTER 2. COMMUNITY PROCLAMATIONS: OUTLINING PROFESSIONALISM

CHAPTER 3. HOW DOES SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION HAPPEN?

CHAPTER 4. THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION

CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL CHANGE IN A NUTSHELL: THE BRICS AND ECHOES FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD

PART II: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT

CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWING COLLEAGUES

CHAPTER 7. THE INTERVIEWS

CHAPTER 7A. BRAZIL

SIMON SCHWARTZMAN

MARIA LIGIA BARBOSA

JOÃO BACHUR

CHAPTER 7B. RUSSIA

DAVID KONSTANTINOVSKIY

ANNA TEMKINA

CHAPTER 7C. FROM THE CHINESE WORLD

HSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO

AGNES SHU-KEI KU

XIANGQUN CHANG

CHAPTER 7D. SOUTH AFRICA

JOHAN MULLER

TINA UYS

MARYAM SEEDAT KHAN

CHAPTER 7E. FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD

HABIBUL KHONDKER

ÇIGDEM ADEM

CHAPTER 8. SUBTLETIES OF PRACTICE: CONTINUITIES AND SMALL SHIFTS

POSTWORD: RECAPITULATION WITH CLUES FOR DESIGNING FURTHER INQUIRY

REFERENCES

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman is Emerita and Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa in Israel. Recent publications include: From the Margins to the Center: An Autoethnography of Passage between Disciplines (with Lea Hagoel, 2016) and The Shape of a Sociology for the 21st Century (ed. with Ann Denis, 2012). She was Vice-President for Publications (2006-2010) for the International Sociological Association.