Creating Sociological Awareness: Collective Images and Symbolic Representations - Couverture rigide

Strauss, Anselm L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887383556 ISBN 13 : 9780887383557

Editeur : Transaction Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

This volume of papers from the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects his self-professed lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. As Irving Louis Horowitz notes in his foreword to the book, at the center of Strauss's effort has been the democratization of sociology. He has achieved this goal by making sure that relativities of status, power, and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life, and by recognition that all collective life is subject to negotiation, rearrangement and reconstruction.

Represented here is some of the work for which Strauss is best known, and the principal themes that have captured his imagination throughout his productive career. These include work, leisure, culture, illness, identity, and policy. All are linked by Strauss's "web of negotiation" by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with a selection of his work in problems of method, consultation, and teaching, affirming Strauss's commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation.

Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology, the work of Anselm Strauss represents the very best thinking in modem sociological and psychological analysis. Those interested in the development of his major conceptual frameworks, as well as those interested in the development of the specific subject areas to which Anselm Strauss has devoted his career will find this an essential volume. Professionals in the history of sociology, the sociology of knowledge, or medical sociology will find the book of particular interest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anselm Strauss (1916-1996) was an American medical sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transaction Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887383556
• ISBN 13: 9780887383557
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 458
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible