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Social things : an introduction to the sociological life / Charles Lemert.

By: Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2012.Edition: 5th edDescription: xvii, 246 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781442211629 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781442211636 (electronic)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 23
LOC classification:
  • HM435 .L46 2012
Contents:
Imagining social things, competently -- Personal courage and practical sociologies -- Practicing the discipline of social things sociology -- Sociology and the lost worlds of the new world order: 1848-1920 -- Sociology becomes the science of worldly structures: 1920-1960 -- Sociology reaches into the world: 1968-2000s -- The mysterious power of social structures -- The lively subjects of dead structures -- Well-measured lives in a world of differences : global things -- Global methods -- Global things on a fragile planet -- Living against the conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagining social things, competently -- Personal courage and practical sociologies -- Practicing the discipline of social things sociology -- Sociology and the lost worlds of the new world order: 1848-1920 -- Sociology becomes the science of worldly structures: 1920-1960 -- Sociology reaches into the world: 1968-2000s -- The mysterious power of social structures -- The lively subjects of dead structures -- Well-measured lives in a world of differences : global things -- Global methods -- Global things on a fragile planet -- Living against the conclusion.

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