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Canadian sociologists in th...
Exploring what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century
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monografia Rebiun34449334 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34449334 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 220317s2021 xxca o 001 0 eng d 0-2280-0775-5 0-2280-0774-7 10.1515/9780228007746 doi MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ n-cn--- xxc CA SOC026000 bisacsh 301.092271 23 cci1icc lacc Canadian sociologists in the first person edited by Stephen Harold Riggins and Neil McLaughlin Montreal, Canada McGill-Queen's University Press [2021] Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada McGill-Queen's University Press 2021 1 online resource (525 pages) 1 online resource (525 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index Cover -- CANADIAN SOCIOLOGISTS IN THE FIRST PERSON -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE PROFESSIONAL SOCIOLOGY -- 1 Marginality, Structure, Agency: A Slow Learner Confronts Sociology -- 2 Adventures of a Chronic Meanderer -- 3 The Contested Profession: A Sociological Autobiography -- 4 Choices and Non-Choices: Waltzing with the Micro/Macro in Sociology -- PART TWO POLICY SOCIOLOGY -- 5 A Career Based on Coincidence -- 6 Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Interdisciplinary Travels of a Political Sociologist -- 7 Studying the War in the Woods and Other Environmental Controversies from the Left Coast -- 8 From West Coast to East Coast, from Activism to Academia -- PART THREE POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 9 Reflections on a Sociological Career: An Academic Autobiography -- 10 How Do We Know What We Know? A Feminist Life and Times in Canadian Sociology -- 11 From Ugly American to Critical Sociologist - in Five Decades -- 12 Learning Sociology: A Participant's Perspective -- 13 Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Becoming a Sociologist -- PART FOUR SOCIAL ACTIVISM -- 14 My Favourite Problems -- 15 From Residential School to University Professor -- 16 "I Know You Are, But What Am I?": Race, Nation, and the Everyday -- 17 "What the ___ Are You Going to Do with Sociology?": Race, Community, and Professional Life -- PART FIVE ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES -- 18 On Becoming a Professional Stranger -- 19 Before Cultural Studies Became a Buzzword -- 20 In a Strange Nation in My Nation Itself -- Index Exploring what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century Sociology- History- Canada- 20th century Sociologists- Canada- Biography Canada- Intellectual life- 20th century Autobiographies. Biographies. History. Autobiographies. McLaughlin, Neil editor Riggins, Stephen Harold 1946-) editor 0-2280-0670-8