Our Studies, Ourselves

Sociologists' Lives and Work

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts of life influence research agendas, individual understandings of the world, and ultimately the shape of the discipline as a whole.Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz asked twenty-two of America's most prominent sociologists to reflect upon how their personal lives influenced their research, and vice versa, how their research has influenced their lives. In this volume, the authors reveal with candor and discernment how world events, political commitments and unanticipated constraints influenced the course of their careers. They disclose how race, class, and gender proved to be pivotal elements in the course of their individual lives, and in how they carry out their research. Faced with academic institutions that did not hire or promote persons of their gender, race, sexual orientation, or physical disability, they invented new routes to success within their fields. Faced with disappointments in political organizations to which they were devoted, they found ways to integrate their disillusionment into their research agendas. While some of the contributors radically changed their political commitments, and others saw more stability, none stood still.An intimate look at biography and craft, these snapshots provide a fascinating glimpse of the sociological life for colleagues, other academics, and aspiring young sociologists. The collection demonstrates how inequalities and injustices can be made into motors for scholarly research, which in turn have the power to change individual life courses and entire societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-09-11
Mått240 x 163 x 22 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195146615

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Barry Glassner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His recent books include The Culture of Fear (2000) and The Gospel of Food (in progress). He had a cameo in Michael Moore's recent movie, Bowling for Columbine. Rosanna Hertz is the Luella LaMer Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of the widely acclaimed More Equal than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages and appears frequently in the broadcast media commenting on social problems for local news specials. Contributors include: Kathleen M. Blee, Héctor L. Delgado, Susan A. Ostrander, Mark S. Mizruchi, William H. Friedland, Howard Schuman, John Walton, Herbert J. Gans, Phyllis Moen, Arlene Skolnick, Jane Mansbridge, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Dorothy E. Smith, Barrie Thorne, Robert R. Alford, Gary L. Albrecht, Christopher Winship, Sherryl Kleinman, Jody Miller, Joshua Gamson, Shulamit Reinharz, Verta Taylor

"...this is a fascinating collection of anecdotal material that I have enjoyed reading..." --Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences"Glassner and Hertz have edited an intriguing collection of 22 autobiographical essays by 12 women and ten men , all academics teaching and contributing to the body of research as sociologists. Their stories form an overall narrative of differing familial, cultural, social, and political background life experiences. ...This book is highly recommended for both lay readers and academics and will be especially appealing to those who are interested in the roadsthat lead people to particular career decisions." --Library Journal"...this is a fascinating collection of anecdotal material that I have enjoyed reading..." --Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences"Glassner and Hertz have edited an intriguing collection of 22 autobiographical essays by 12 women and ten men (one of whom has since died), all academics teaching and contributing to the body of research as sociologists. Their stories form an overall narrative of differing familial, cultural, social, and political background life experiences. The essays show how various social/ political environments particular to each contributor's generation, such as the NewDeal era, the rise of labor unions, the women's and civil rights movements, the Vietnam War, differing opinions on society's recognition of gays and lesbians, and problems of the ghettos, poverty, andcrime, have moved each toward a particular area of research within the discipline of sociology. This book is highly recommended for both lay readers and academics and will be especially appealing to those who are interested in the roads that lead people to particular career decisions." --Library Journal