Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Sociology and Social Research (Rle Social Theory)

Sociology and Social Research (Rle Social Theory)

Robert Dingwall
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect. This is the message of the authors of this book in this reassessment of the evolution and present state of British sociology.

Their investigation analyses the discipline as a social institution, whose product is inexorably shaped by the everyday circumstances of its producers; it is the concrete outcome of people's work, rather than a body of abstract ideas. Drawing upon their varied experience as teachers and researchers, they identify three major trends in contemporary sociology. First, that the discipline's rapid expansion has led to a retreat from rigorous research into Utopian and introspective theorising. Second, that the concept of sociological research is being taught in a totally false way because of this, and encourages 'research' within a wholly academic environment. Third, that the current unpopularity of sociology with academics, prospective students and politicians is no coincidence, but a reflection of the conditions under which sociology is now produced and practised.

In Sociology and Social Research the authors suggest substantial changes in sociological research, the way in which it is carried out and the conditions under which it is undertaken. Their book is a timely warning to fellow sociologists when the profession is under attack as a result of public expenditure cuts.
Pages
332
Format
ebook
Publisher
Routledge
Release
August 21, 2014
ISBN
1317650859
ISBN 13
9781317650850

Sociology and Social Research (Rle Social Theory)

Robert Dingwall
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect. This is the message of the authors of this book in this reassessment of the evolution and present state of British sociology.

Their investigation analyses the discipline as a social institution, whose product is inexorably shaped by the everyday circumstances of its producers; it is the concrete outcome of people's work, rather than a body of abstract ideas. Drawing upon their varied experience as teachers and researchers, they identify three major trends in contemporary sociology. First, that the discipline's rapid expansion has led to a retreat from rigorous research into Utopian and introspective theorising. Second, that the concept of sociological research is being taught in a totally false way because of this, and encourages 'research' within a wholly academic environment. Third, that the current unpopularity of sociology with academics, prospective students and politicians is no coincidence, but a reflection of the conditions under which sociology is now produced and practised.

In Sociology and Social Research the authors suggest substantial changes in sociological research, the way in which it is carried out and the conditions under which it is undertaken. Their book is a timely warning to fellow sociologists when the profession is under attack as a result of public expenditure cuts.
Pages
332
Format
ebook
Publisher
Routledge
Release
August 21, 2014
ISBN
1317650859
ISBN 13
9781317650850

More books from Robert Dingwall

Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

4/5 ( ratings)

Context and Method in Qualitative Research

4/5 ( ratings)

Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Sociological Agenda

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Aspects of Illness (Routledge Revivals)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The SAGE Handbook of Research Management

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Health Care and Health Knowledge

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Qualitative Health Research (Fundamentals of Applied Research)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic: Parents, Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Prospects for the National Health

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The social organisation of health visitor training

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Health and the Division of Labour

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Qualitative Research Methods for Nurses

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader