Craig Calhoun / Chris Rojek / Bryan S Turner

Gebundenes Buch

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology

Beschreibung

Sociology has evolved greatly since it's inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions - so much so that today the notion of canonical sociology has become widely disputed. The field of sociology at present approximates to one of multi-paradigmatic complexity in which many approaches to theory must be distinguished and situated. In addition, the discipline has had to confront new challenges from globalization, the shift of interest from production to consumption, the rise of new social movements, the challenge of bio-engineering, the collapse of a 'presently existing socialist alternative' and much else besides.

The new SAGE Handbook of Sociology aims to address these new developments, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates of today. To undertake this ambitious project three leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the foremost exponents of the different strands that contribute towards the make up modern sociology. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic the contributors have been commissioned to utilise the most up to date research available to provide a critical, international analysis of their area of expertise.

The result is this essential resource collection that not just reflects upon the condition of sociology today but also looks to future developments in the discipline. The Handbook is invaluable not just all sociologists but to a wide variety of students and researchers across the social sciences.

Click on 'Sample Chapters & Resources' to download the introduction.

Autor

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at New York University and President of the Social Science Research Council; Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge; and Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology & Culture at Nottingham Trent University Contributors′ Description: Gary Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago David Apter, Yale University Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania Dalton Conley, New York University Nick Crossley, University of Manchester Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology Sara Delamont, Cardiff University Gerard Delanty, University of Liverpool John A. Hall, McGill University Patricia Hill Collins, University of Cincinnati Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University, Illinois Charles Hirschman, University of Washington Geoffrey Ingham, University of Cambridge Karen Knorr Cettina, University of Konstanz, Germany David Lyon, Queen′s University, Kingston, Ontario Sinisa Malesevic, University of Galway Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney Adrian Raftery, University of Washington Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen Chris Rojek, Nottingham Trent University Saskia Sassen, The University of Chicago Mike Savage, University of Manchester Richard Sennett, London School of Economics Roger Silverstone, London School of Economics Don Slater, London School of Economics Heinz Steinert, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt Bryan S. Turner, National University of Singapore Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside Sylvia Walby, University of Leeds Kathleen E. White Steven Yearley, University of York

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1187g
• ISBN-13: 9780761968214
• ISBN-10: 0761968210
• Artikelnr.: 22395782

Rezensionen

...an eclectic, essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate

students and those with an avid interest in the contemporary, greatly evolving, science

of sociology, who need instruction and enlightenment in the cutting edge of

theoretical discourses of society as a whole. Recommended
Journal of Sociology

This is a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of sociology's 'state-of-the-art'. It will set the terms of debate for the next decade
John Urry
Lancaster University of Life

The profession of sociology was blessed by abundance of excellent handbooks. The one edited by Craig Calhoun, Christ Rojek and Bryan Turner was preceded by outstanding sociology handbooks, the most

eminent ones by Robert Farris and E Lee published in 1964 and a more recent one by Neil Smelser in1988. The volume by Farris and Lee not only served as an introductory text to the discipline, but contained many innovative papers, which re-oriented social research for years to come. Smelser brought together the best possible and most polished overview of the contributions professional sociology at his time. The Calhoun-Rojek-Turner Handbook combines the best of these traditions. It gives a comprehensive overview of our field, much like Smelser's book did, but it is also daringly innovative - reminiscent to some of the by now classical chapters of the Farris-Lee treatise - in terms of giving voice to new areas of investigations, inviting contributions not only from established figures but also from younger talented scholars. This new Handbook of Sociology bravely confronts the epochal changes of our times, the new problems of the new global world order, it avoids the temptations to impose on the discipline any over-arching paradigm or methodology and forcefully combines professional or scientific approaches to sociology with politically engaged public sociologies. The book will recruit socially committed and scientifically ambitious students to major in sociology if used in introductory undergraduate courses but even graduate students will benefit reading it in trying to identify where the cutting edges of their professions might be
Ivan Szelenyi
Yale University

This Handbook of Sociology breaks new grounds by bringing together top European and American sociologists. The contributions provide a fresh perspective on many of the most recent developments in the field of sociology. This volume will prove to be a very useful tool for researchers and students across the social sciences. It will set the agenda for a more integrated, yet plural, sociology
Michele Lamont
Harvard University





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