Advances in Sociological Knowledge

Das englischsprachige Buch zieht eine Bilanz der widersprüchlichen intellektuellen Entwicklung der Soziologie über ein halbes Jahrhundert. Die Disziplin braucht diese Aufarbeitung der eigenen Erfahrung, um mit den neuen sozialen und kognitiven Herausforderungen fertig zu werden.

The book takes stock of the in parts contradictory intellectual developments in sociology of the past 50 years. This reckoning with the sociological experience is necessary in order to cope with new social and cognitive challenges.

Sociology over half a Century

Autorentext
Nikolai Genov is Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Berlin.

Inhalt
Breakthroughs, Fashions and Continuity in Developing Sociological Knowledge.- One: Sociology and Social Processes.- The Global Shift and Its Consequences for Sociology.- Changing Visions about the Post-Industrial Society.- The Social Role of Knowledge.- Two: Sociological Concepts.- Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming Experience into Understanding.- Contributions of Rational Choice Theory to Modern Sociology: An Overview.- Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research: Background, Achievements and Current Trends.- Social Capital as a Useful Scientific Metaphor.- Social Cohesion and Related Concepts.- Reconceptualizing Modes of Belonging: Advancements in the Sociology of Ethnicity and Multiculturalism.- Conceptualizing Ethnicity: In Search of Cognitive Innovations.- Three: Sociology and Social Practice.- Fifty Years of Urban Sociology.- Poverty Production: A Different Approach to Poverty Understanding.- Feminist Sociology: Past and Present Challenges.- Sociology and Industrial Democracy.- About the Authors.

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