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Social things : an introduction to the sociological life

Title
Social things : an introduction to the sociological life / Charles Lemert.
Author
Lemert, Charles C., 1937-
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008], ©2008.

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Description
xviii, 231 pages; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.
Contents
The Sociological Life -- 1 Imagining Social Things, Competently 3 -- 2 Personal Courage and Practical Sociologies 17 -- 3 Practicing the Discipline of Social Things 35 -- Sociology -- 4 Sociology and the Lost Worlds of the New World Order: 1848-1920 51 -- 5 Sociology Becomes the Science of Worldly Structures: 1920-1960 75 -- 6 Sociology Discovers Its Complicated Vocation: After 1960 91 -- Social Things -- 7 The Mysterious Power of Social Structures 111 -- 8 The Lively Subjects of Dead Structures 131 -- 9 Well-Measured Lives in a World of Differences 149 -- Global Things -- 10 Global Methods 169 -- 11 Global Things Queer the Social 191 -- 12 Living against the Conclusion 215.
ISBN
  • 9780742559356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0742559351 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008004923
OCLC
  • ocn192109596
  • 192109596
  • SCSB-8855909
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries