Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8509-7 • Paperback • August 1997 • $29.00 • (£21.99)
978-1-4616-4251-0 • eBook • August 1997 • $27.50 • (£20.99)
Kai Erikson is Professor of Sociology at Yale University, the author of the classics.Everything In Its Path and other widley ready books.
Part 1 Part I. Prologue
Chapter 2 Sociology as a Perspective
Part 3 Part II. Sociology as Art and Science
Chapter 4 Sociology as Science, Humanism, and Art
Chapter 5 The Two Faces of Social Science
Chapter 6 Disciplined Artfulness and the Human Sciences
Chapter 7 History and Sociological Imagining
Chapter 8 The Many Enchantments of Money
Chapter 9 Sociology and History: Terms of Endearment?
Chapter 10 Social Science: An Imperfect Art
Part 11 Part III. Sociology and Public Policy
Chapter 12 Toward a Broader Vision of Inner-City Poverty
Chapter 13 Race, Localism, and Urban Poverty
Chapter 14 Inner-City as Place
Chapter 15 Social Science and Social Policy: A Case Study of Overreaching
Chapter 16 Epilogue: Sociology as a Discipline
Chapter 17 Introduction
Chapter 18 De-gendering "Man of Science": The Genesis and Epicene Character of the Word Scientist
Chapter 19 On the Moral Authority of Science
Chapter 20 Strange Relation
Chapter 21 A Life of Learning
The whole book is in fact a treat for old stagers in the sociological establishment, full of serious reflections about the difficulties and intriguing intellectual charm of living nd working with a discipline which 'has never been able to make up its mind quite what it is' (Smelser, Sociology as Science, Humanism and Art, p.20).
— Martin Albrow, Roehampton Institute and London School of Economics and Political Science; British Journal of Sociology, Vol.50 No.2 (June 1999)
Features:
-An invaluable resource that illustrates different approaches for upper-division students
-Essays from outstanding figures in the field
-For courses on sociological research, methods, or theory.