Bourdieu - The Craft of Sociology [made in istanbul]

manifesto for a revolutionary scientific praxis


The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The book includes an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an introduction by the editor to his sociological methodology.

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Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century

Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century
by Dan Clawson (Editor), Robert Zussman (Editor), Joya Misra (Editor), Naomi Gerstel (Editor), Randall Stokes (Editor)

* Paperback: 286 pages
* Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (June 6, 2007)

In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a "public sociology." Burawoy argued that sociology should speak beyond the university, engaging with social movements and deepening an understanding of the historical and social context in which they exist. In this volume, renowned sociologists come together to debate the perils and the potentials of Burawoy's challenge.

Introductory
Introduction Robert Zussman Joya Misra 3
For Public Sociology Michael Burawoy 23
Institutionalizing Public Sociology
Public Sociology and the End of Society Alain Touraine 67
Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, and Compartmentalization in Burawoy's Public Sociology Sharon Hays 79
If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things Judith Stacey 91
Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name Patricia Hill Collins 101
Politics and the Profession
Speaking to Publics William Julius Wilson 117
Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on What You Mean by Sociology Lynn Smith-Lovin 124
Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power Arthur L. Stinchcombe 135
The Strength of Weak Politics Douglas S. Massey 145
From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist Frances Fox Piven 158
False Distinctions: Conceptual Reservations
The Sociologist and the Public Sphere Immanuel Wallerstein 169
About Public Sociology Orlando Patterson 176
For Humanist Sociology Andrew Abbott 195
Interdisciplinarity
Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, but Who Is Listening? Evelyn Nakano Glenn 213
A Journalist's Plea Barbara Ehrenreich 231
Rejoinder
The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise Michael Burawoy 241
Editors and Contributors 259
Index 263


the phrase (public sociology) is by itself putting the question wrongly, the homo academicus' around here should read some Bourdieu

Science and Social Science: An Introduction

Science and Social Science: An Introduction

Is social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first real question that any course on the philosophy of the social sciences must tackle. In this brief introduction, Malcolm Williams gives the students the grounding that will enable them to discuss the issues involved with confidence



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Durkheim And Representations

[Also available as a free pdf ]


Durkheim And Representations
by W.S.F. Pickering

Durkheim’s sociological thought is based on the premise that the world cannot be known as a thing in itself, but only through representations, rough approximations of the world created either individually or collectively. Durkheim and Representations is a set of papers by leading Durkheimians from Britain, America and continental Europe. It is the first concentrated attempt to understand what he meant by representations, how his understanding of the term was influenced by Kant and by neo-Kantians like Charles Renouvier, and how his use of the concept in his work developed over time.By arguing that his use of representations is at the core of Durkheim’s sociological thought, this book makes a unique contribution to Durkheimian studies which have recently been dominated by positivist and functionalist interpretations, and reveals a thinker very much in tune with contemporary developments in philosophy, linguistics and sociology.

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/494742/kutu1/Durkheim%20And%20Representations.pdf

Textual Analysis for Social Research

Analysing Discourse - Textual Analysis for Social Research

by Norm Fairclough

'This is a thorough and detailed introduction to textual analysis which will benefit those to whom it is mainly directed: students and researchers in social science and humanities. - Iescalate

Analysing Discourse is an accessible introduction to text and discourse analysis for all students and researchers seeking to use and investigate real language data.Students and researchers in the social sciences, as well as language specialists, often discover that they cannot get as much from texts, conversations or research interviews as they would like because they are unsure exactly how to analyze these language materials. This book helps all students and researchers who rely on real language data to get the most out of their resources.Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Habermas, as well as his own past research, Fairclough's book presents a form of language analysis with a consistently social perspective. His approach is illustrated by and investigated through a range of real texts, from political speeches and TV news reports to management consultancy reports and texts concerning globalization.The book is an essential resource seeking to analyze real texts and discourse.

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/494742/kutu1/Analysing%20Discourse%20-%20Textual%20Analysis%20For%20Social%20Research.pdf