Practicing Social Science

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman is Emerita and Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa in Israel. Recent publications include: From the Margins to the Center: An Autoethnography of Passage between Disciplines (with Lea Hagoel, 2016) and The Shape of a Sociology for the 21st Century (ed. with Ann Denis, 2012). She was Vice-President for Publications (2006-2010) for the International Sociological Association.

• NOTES ON INTERVIEWEESPREFACE INTRODUCTION: PRACTICING SOCIAL SCIENCEPART I: DECLARATIONS AND DILEMMASCHAPTER 1. DISCIPLINE, CAREER, PROFESSION: SOCIOLOGY IN PRACTITIONERS' LIVES CHAPTER 2. COMMUNITY PROCLAMATIONS: OUTLINING PROFESSIONALISM CHAPTER 3. HOW DOES SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION HAPPEN?CHAPTER 4. THEORIZING GLOBALIZATIONCHAPTER 5. SOCIAL CHANGE IN A NUTSHELL: THE BRICS AND ECHOES FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLDPART II: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWING COLLEAGUESCHAPTER 7. THE INTERVIEWSCHAPTER 7A. BRAZILSIMON SCHWARTZMANMARIA LIGIA BARBOSAJOÃO BACHURCHAPTER 7B. RUSSIADAVID KONSTANTINOVSKIYANNA TEMKINACHAPTER 7C. FROM THE CHINESE WORLDHSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAOAGNES SHU-KEI KU XIANGQUN CHANGCHAPTER 7D. SOUTH AFRICAJOHAN MULLERTINA UYSMARYAM SEEDAT KHANCHAPTER 7E. FROM THE MUSLIM WORLDHABIBUL KHONDKER ÇIĞDEM ADEMCHAPTER 8. SUBTLETIES OF PRACTICE: CONTINUITIES AND SMALL SHIFTSPOSTWORD: RECAPITULATION WITH CLUES FOR DESIGNING FURTHER INQUIRYREFERENCESINDEX

'This book is a fantastic dive into sociological reflexivity. Looking at the ways sociologists in different corners of the world live their discipline, the author offers the reader an inspiring way to reflect about contemporary sociology. While the sociologists interviewed disclose their lived experience Kalekin-Fishman crafts their discourse into a powerful interpretation of present day challenges confronting not only sociology but all the social sciences.' - Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil'Thinking globally is not only understanding the global economy. It also means analyzing the world today with new tools, and taking into account recent perspectives that are opened by social scientists all over the world - not only in English. Nobody could do it better than Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, with her experience as a former vice president for publications at the International Sociological Association.' - Michel Wieviorka, President of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France