For Sociology : Legacies and Prospects (Hardcover)

Overview 1 The new positivity 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument 3 For sociology, Gouldner’s and ours 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and Imperialism 5 For a sociological feminism 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century 7 Work and its narratives 8 Sociology and the Third Way 9 Memory, violence and identity 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map