Author: Shireen A. AllyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Servants & Saints? Sociology and Sociologists in Apartheid South Africa
Author: Shireen A. AllyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Sociology in South Africa
Author: R. SooryamoorthyPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783319820804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci of sociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology was professionally fragmented and divided along language and race lines. It was, however, able to flourish with the advent of democracy in 1994 and has become a unique academic movement. This insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, and all those interested in the history and society of South Africa.
Sociological Abstracts
Author: Sociology, Work and Industry
Author: Tony WatsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134784805
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Author: Julian GoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190625139
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible with postcolonial thought, this book argues that the two are mutually beneficial, drawing upon the works of thinkers such as Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Go concludes with a call for a "third wave" of postcolonial thought emerging from social science and surmounting the narrow confines of disciplinary boundaries.
Introduction to Sociology 3e
Author: Tonja R. ConerlyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781998109289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Sociology of Gender
Author: Amy S. WhartonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405143436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an introductory overview of gender theory and research,offering a unique and compelling approach. Treats gender as a multilevel system operating at theindividual, interactional, and institutional levels. Stresses conceptual and theoretical issues in the sociology ofgender. Offers an accessible yet intellectually sophisticated approachto current gender theory and research. Includes pedagogical features designed to encourage criticalthinking and debate. Closer Look readings at the end of each chapter give aunique perspective on chapter topics by presenting relevantarticles by leading scholars.
Sociology
Author: Steven E. BarkanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781936126538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa SantosPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317260341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
The New Handbook of Political Sociology
Author: Thomas JanoskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108148093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. Covering all subareas of the field with both theoretical orientations and empirical studies, it directly connects scholars with current research in the field. A total reconceptualization of the first edition, the new handbook features nine additional chapters and highlights the impact of the media and big data.