Public Sociology From Social Facts to Literary Acts

Name: Public Sociology From Social Facts to Literary Acts
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ISBN: 9780742541061

ISBN-10: 0742541061

ISBN-13: 9780742541061

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Ben Agger

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Public Sociology examines the 'discourse' of mainstream journal articles in sociology in order to understand the essentially conservative nature of mainstream sociology. These articles primarily make advances in method, not substance. Drawing from Mills, critical theory and postmodernism, Agger develops a non-positivist version of sociological writing that is at once accessible and relevant to social problems.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.07" wide x 9.07" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ben Agger is the author of many previous books on Media and Critical Theory, including Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories (2002).



Series Editor's Foreword



Preface to Second Edition


Acknowledgments



Sociology as Secret Writing: Lessons from Postmodernism



Learning Discipline Discursively



Beginning Science



Method as the Main Text



Concluding Science



"Maybe the Reviewer Is Just Dense": Review and Revision as Argument



Was Sociology Always Like This?



Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism



Has Mainstream Sociology Gone Public?


Appendix: Articles in the Sample


Bibliography


Index


About the Author