Reconstructing Sociology
Download Reconstructing Sociology full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Reconstructing Sociology ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Douglas V. Porpora |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2015-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107107373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107107377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Sociology by : Douglas V. Porpora
A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.
Author |
: Douglas V. Porpora |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2015-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316390429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131639042X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Sociology by : Douglas V. Porpora
Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a lively, accessible style, Douglas V. Porpora argues that sociology currently operates with deficient accounts of truth, culture, structure, agency, and causality that are all better served by a critical realist perspective. This approach argues against the alternative sociological perspectives, in particular the dominant positivism which privileges statistical techniques and experimental design over ethnographic and historical approaches. However, the book also compares critical realism favourably with a range of other approaches, including poststructuralism, pragmatism, interpretivism, practice theory, and relational sociology. Numerous sociological examples are included, and each chapter addresses well-known and current work in sociology.
Author |
: Bernard S Phillips |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2015-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317257394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317257391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society by : Bernard S Phillips
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.
Author |
: Allison James |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135715496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135715491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood by : Allison James
First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.
Author |
: Allison James |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135715489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135715483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood by : Allison James
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Bernard S. Phillips |
Publisher |
: AldineTransaction |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0202306658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780202306650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel by : Bernard S. Phillips
To look outside the discipline of sociology is to find little credibility given to the field as science. Bernard Phillips argues that we are learning to see ever more clearly the contradiction between scientific standards and what in fact has been achieved by sociology. Instead of knowledge based on the full range of our findings, we have separate pieces of knowledge located within the diverse areas of the discipline, and fads and fashions in the ideas and terms we use with relatively little cumulative development. This has led many to question whether any "scientific method" can be applied to human behavior. If the arguments and alternative interpretations in this book on the problematic nature of sociology's use of scientific method prove to be credible and fruitful, then the implications are profound. For example, the conclusions drawn for every single social science study that has ever been conducted would be open to reinterpretation, because they fail to take into account systematically the enormous complexity involved within any given instance of human behavior. Our present approach assumes implicitly that the pieces of the human jigsaw puzzle can at some point be put together so as to yield a coherent picture. Yet, as Phillips shows, if each piece is itself deficient, then no coherent picture emerges when we attempt to put the pieces together. Refusing to take the current fragmentation of sociology as inevitable, Phillips offers a clear vision, through a series of heuristic "web" images, of how sociologists might achieve the cumulative development and credibility that are the hallmarks of any science. His research draws heavily on the works of classical and contemporary theorists, philosophers, and historians of science, as well as on postmodernist critiques and responses to postmodernism. This reconstruction will be useful for courses in method in the study of the classical tradition of sociology. Bernard Phillips was introduced to sociology at Columbia University by C. Wright Mills. A former professor of sociology at Boston University, cofounder of the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and founder of the Sociological Imagination Group, his publications emphasize methodology and theory.
Author |
: Harry F. Dahms |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786354693 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786354691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice by : Harry F. Dahms
Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on “Reconstruction”, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.
Author |
: Pamela Brandwein |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822323168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822323167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Reconstruction by : Pamela Brandwein
Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The author analyzes how the ultimately dominant version of the history won credence and how that in
Author |
: Jan Lin |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 1452903565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781452903569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Chinatown by : Jan Lin
In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organizational crime. This volume presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering the "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this neighbourhood both unique and broadly instructive.
Author |
: Bernard S. Phillips |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1084424604 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society by : Bernard S. Phillips