Stretching the sociological imagination : essays in honour of John Eldridge /: essays in honour of John Eldridge. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Matt Dawson, Bridget Fowler, David Miller, Andrew Smith.
• Editors: Dawson, Matt, 1983-; Fowler, Bridget, 1943-; Miller, David, 1964-; Smith, Andrew, 1974-
• Other Names: Eldridge, J. E. T (John Eric Thomas) honoree.
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword: For John Eldridge -- Sociology in His Times and Ours; Foreword: John Eldridge and the Birth of the Glasgow Media Group; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination; Part I Sociology of Work and Industry; 2 Exploring an Industrial Structure of Feeling: Creating Industrial Gemeinschaft in a Twentieth-Century Workplace; 3 John Eldridge's Adventures with Cross-Classification in the Sociology of Work; 4 'When All Hell Breaks Loose': Striking on the British Coalfields 1984-85. 5 False Self-EmploymentPart II Social Theory; 6 On the (Alternative) Worlds That We Have Lost: Sociology and The Third Way Revisited; 7 The Media and Collective Memory: The Obituaries of Academics; 8 The Humanitarian Crisis in Sociology; Part III Sociology of the Media; 9 Sociology, Propaganda and Psychological Operations; 10 Sociology of the Media: Towards an Ideal Journalistic Practice; 11 Sociology and Journalism: The Search for a Historical Imagination; 12 The Martian Invasion and the Sociological Imagination; Conclusion: Stretching the Sociological Imagination in the Neo-Liberal Academy.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 301.0941; Social sciences; Sociology -- Great Britain; Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social theory; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Sociology; Media studies; Cultural studies; Industrial sociology; Communication; Sociology: work & labour; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137493644; 1349573361; 9781349573363
• Related ISBNs: 113749364X; 9781137493637; 9781349573363; 1137493631
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 12, 2016).
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