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Taking it big : developing sociological consciousness in postmodern times / Steven P. Dandaneau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452221984
  • 1452221987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 301
LOC classification:
  • HM585
  • HM585.D36
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 -- Sociology,or Imaginative Reflections from Empirically Damaged Life; Part I -- Developing an Orientation to Self and Society; Chapter 2 -- The Big Picture,or a Brief Survey of Our Dying World; Chapter 3 -- The Small Picture,or Yesterday's Dystopias as Today's Everyday Life; Chapter 4 -- Toward a Postmodern Sociological Imagination and a Sociological Imagination for Postmodern Times; Part II -- Applying the Sociological Imagination: Three Models; Chapter 5 -- A Wrong Child: Analyzing the Unanalyzable; Chapter 6 -- Generation X: A Phantom Subject.
Chapter 7 -- Religion and Society: Of Gods and DemonsPart III -- The Social Forces Working against the Sociological Imagination; Chapter 8 -- The Degradation of the Public Sphere; Chapter 9 -- The End of History; Chapter 10 -- Sociology without Society; Part IV -- Looking Back,Looking Ahead; Epilogue: Sociology as Critical Theory of Society; A Personal Note; Index.
Summary: This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own.
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This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 -- Sociology,or Imaginative Reflections from Empirically Damaged Life; Part I -- Developing an Orientation to Self and Society; Chapter 2 -- The Big Picture,or a Brief Survey of Our Dying World; Chapter 3 -- The Small Picture,or Yesterday's Dystopias as Today's Everyday Life; Chapter 4 -- Toward a Postmodern Sociological Imagination and a Sociological Imagination for Postmodern Times; Part II -- Applying the Sociological Imagination: Three Models; Chapter 5 -- A Wrong Child: Analyzing the Unanalyzable; Chapter 6 -- Generation X: A Phantom Subject.

Chapter 7 -- Religion and Society: Of Gods and DemonsPart III -- The Social Forces Working against the Sociological Imagination; Chapter 8 -- The Degradation of the Public Sphere; Chapter 9 -- The End of History; Chapter 10 -- Sociology without Society; Part IV -- Looking Back,Looking Ahead; Epilogue: Sociology as Critical Theory of Society; A Personal Note; Index.

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