Taking it big : developing sociological consciousness in postmodern times /: developing sociological consciousness in postmodern times. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steven P. Dandaneau.
• Authors: Dandaneau, Steven P
• Contents: Sociology, or, Imaginative Reflections from Empirically Damaged Life; PART ONE: DEVELOPING AN ORIENTATION TO SELF AND SOCIETY; The Big Picture, or, a Brief Survey of Our Dying World; The Small Picture, or, Yesterday's Dystopias as Today's Everyday Life; Toward a Postmodern Sociological Imagination and a Sociological Imagination for Postmodern Times; PART TWO: APPLYING THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: THREE MODELS; A Wrong Child; Analyzing the Unanalyzable; Generation X; A Phantom Subject; Religion and Society; Of Gods and Demons; PART THREE: THE SOCIAL FORCES WORKING AGAINST THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; The Degradation of the Public Sphere; The End of History; Sociology without Society; PART FOUR: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD; Epilogue; Sociology as Critical Theory of Society
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages)
• Subjects: 301; Sociology; Social sciences; Critical thinking; Critical theory; Postmodernism -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452221984; 1452221987
• Related ISBNs: 0761987037
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.