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Sociology after the crisis

Author: Charles C Lemert
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The crisis-riddled world needs a renewed sociology perhaps even more than it requires economic or political advice. Charles Lemert sees sociology as first and foremost a special type of practical, moral wisdom. Sociology is the way in which individuals try to understand the inner secrets of social life against the embracing structures of the modern world. All professional sociologists build, or ought to build, from
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Lemert, Charles C., 1937-
Sociology after the crisis.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995
(OCoLC)651896599
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles C Lemert
ISBN: 0813325439 9780813325439 0813325447 9780813325446
OCLC Number: 32349531
Description: xx, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. After the Crisis --
2. Sociology as Theories of Lost Worlds --
3. Modernity's Riddle and Durkheim's Lost Fathers --
4. The End of Ideology, Really! --
5. Measured Selves in Weak Worlds --
6. Structuring Differences --
7. Three Ways to Think Structures and Ignore Differences --
8. Measuring the Subject's Secrets --
9. The Future of Sociologies.
Responsibility: Charles Lemert.
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The crisis-riddled world needs a renewed sociology perhaps even more than it requires economic or political advice. Charles Lemert sees sociology as first and foremost a special type of practical, moral wisdom. Sociology is the way in which individuals try to understand the inner secrets of social life against the embracing structures of the modern world. All professional sociologists build, or ought to build, from this fundamental attempt to take the measure of one's self in a structured world. Lemert's appreciative insights span the historical development of sociology from the days of Durkheim and Weber, through those of Merton and Parsons, to today's sociology influenced by Dorothy Smith, Bourdieu, Giddens, and many more. With uncommon ease the author speaks of writers like these in relation to Gloria Anzaldua, Cornel West, and others who represent the current wave of practical sociologies.

Sociology After the Crisis invites sociologists, social scientists, and all those concerned with today's world to take up once again their responsibilities as public intellectuals and to begin by recognizing that sociology is most powerful when rooted in the practical work of daily life.

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