Author: George N. KatsiaficasPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829015959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Introduction to Critical Sociology
Author: George N. KatsiaficasPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829015959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Critical Sociology
Author: Steven M. BuechlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317264967
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society. Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession, the Obama presidency, the burgeoning role of social media, and recent global social movements such the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring. In this second edition, Buechler discusses the changing relationship between social movements and democracy. The book contains chapters on how to think sociologically; an overview of scientific, humanistic, and critical schools of sociology; and a detailed exposition of the critical tradition.
Critical Sociology
Author: Steven M. BuechlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317264959
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised, updated, and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society. Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession, the Obama presidency, the burgeoning role of social media, and recent global social movements such the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring. In this second edition, Buechler discusses the changing relationship between social movements and democracy. The book contains chapters on how to think sociologically; an overview of scientific, humanistic, and critical schools of sociology; and a detailed exposition of the critical tradition.
An Introduction to Critical Sociology
Author: Charles Quist-AdadePublisher:
ISBN: 9781465299895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Introduction to Critical Sociology
Author: Miguel Montalva BarbaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction to Critical Sociology: A Reader provides students with a curated collection of articles centered on critical sociology and its ability to address the social, political, racial, gender, ableist, and other oppressive structures of the past and today. The anthology challenges readers to question often unnamed or hidden categories that support structures of power that reproduce division and exclusion. The anthology is organized into five units. Unit I focuses on the foundations of sociology as a discipline, what sociological thinking is, and what it looks like in practice. Unit II covers the media, paying close attention to American society and culture. In Units III and IV, readers learn about social stratification and issues related to gender, sex, and sexuality. The final unit focuses on critical race theory and White supremacy. Designed to help students become more socially aware, self-reflective, and better stewards of a just and equitable world, Introduction to Critical Sociology is an ideal supplementary textbook for courses and programs in sociology.
Sociology, a Brief But Critical Introduction
Author: Anthony GiddensPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Elements of Sociology
Author: John SteckleyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195431667
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The bestselling Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction is back in a highly anticipated second edition. Taking a refreshing look at the discipline through extensive use of first-person narratives, the text inspires students to see sociology in everyday life. Beginning with theorigins of the discipline, the authors examine how sociology helps make sense of traditional topics - such as family, deviance, culture - and contemporary issues such as immigration, health care, and gender and sexuality. Promoting an understanding of core sociological concepts, the new editionchallenges students to think differently about sociology.
Reconstructing Sociology
Author: Douglas V. PorporaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107377
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.
Introduction to Sociology
Author: Theodor W. AdornoPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804746830
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Introduction to Sociology distills decades of distinguished work in sociology by one of this centurys most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. It consists of a course of seventeen lectures given by Theodor W. Adorno in May-July 1968, the last lecture series before his death in 1969. Captured by tape recorder (which Adorno called the fingerprint of the living mind), these lectures present a somewhat different, and more accessible, Adorno from the one who composed the faultlessly articulated and almost forbiddingly perfect prose of the works published in his lifetime. Here we can follow Adornos thought in the process of formation (he spoke from brief notes), endowed with the spontaneity and energy of the spoken word. The lectures form an ideal introduction to Adornos work, acclimatizing the reader to the greater density of thought and language of his classic texts. Delivered at the time of the positivist dispute in sociology, Adorno defends the position of the Frankfurt School against criticism from mainstream positivist sociologists. He sets out a conception of sociology as a discipline going beyond the compilation and interpretation of empirical facts, its truth being inseparable from the essential structure of society itself. Adorno sees sociology not as one academic discipline among others, but as an over-arching discipline that impinges on all aspects of social life. Tracing the history of the discipline and insisting that the historical context is constitutive of sociology itself, Adorno addresses a wide range of topics, including: the purpose of studying sociology; the relation of sociology and politics; the influence of Saint-Simon, Comte, Durkheim, Weber, Marx, and Freud; the contributions of ethnology and anthropology; the relationship of method to subject matter; the problems of quantitative analysis; the fetishization of science; and the separation of sociology and social philosophy.
Culture, Power And History
Author: Stephen J. PfohlPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004146598
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. Contributors bring a diversity of critical sociological perspectives and subject matters to this important edited book.