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Title:

Sociology in America / editor, Herbert J. Gans.

Publisher:

Sage Publications,

Copyright Date:

c1990

Description:

333 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sociology--United States--Congresses.
Sociology
United States

Other Authors:

Gans, Herbert J.
American Sociological Association. Meeting (82nd : 1988 : Atlanta, Ga.)

Notes:

Papers presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, August 1988. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Foreign sociologists look at U.S. sociology: American sociology viewed from abroad / Alain Touraine. General theory and American sociology / Niklas Luhmann. Notes on American sociology and American power / R. W. Connell -- Sociology and the other social sciences: Sociology and history: producing comparative history / Jack A. Goldstone. Sociology, economics, and the economy / Harvey Molotch -- Appendix A: the Atlanta thematic sessions -- Appendix B: sociology in America: the discipline and the public [from] American Sociological Association, 1988 presidential address / Herbert J. Gans.
Sociology and critical American issues: Sociological foundations of the civil rights movement / Charles U. Smith and Lewis M. Killian. Definitions of the underclass: a critical analysis / Robert Aponte. Political dimensions of the underclass concept / Walter W. Stafford and Joyce Ladner. The wrong stuff: reflections on the place of gender in American sociology / R. W. Connell -- Sociology and its constituencies: The cultural contradictions of teaching sociology / Paul J. Baker and William C. Rau. Organizations and sociology / Marshall W. Meyer -- Sociology and social criticism: The virtues of dissent in sociology / Lewis A. Coser. Sociology for whom? criticism for whom? / Todd Gitlin. Social criticism and sociological elitism / Joan Moore. Born-again sociology / Peter H. Rossi.
Sociology's effects on America: The influence of sociological ideas on American culture / Dennis H. Wrong. Sociology's critical irony: countering American individualism / Joseph R. Gusfield -- America's effects on sociology: External influences on sociology / Neil J. Smelser. The curious importance of small groups in American sociology / Allan Silver -- Sociology and American public policy: Witnesses, engineers, or storytellers? Roles of sociologists in social policy / Peter Marris. Sociology and nuclear war / William A. Gamson.

Series:

American Sociological Association presidential series

ISBN:

9780803938274 (pbk.)
0803938276 (pbk.)
9780803938267
0803938268

LCCN:

90008218

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)