Public Sociology: From Social Facts to Literary Acts

Public Sociology: From Social Facts to Literary Acts
ISBN-10
1461641527
ISBN-13
9781461641520
Series
Public Sociology
Category
Social Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2007-03-06
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Author
Ben Agger

Description

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.

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