Passionate Sociology / Edition 1

by Ann Game, Andrew W Metcalfe

Overview

This challenging and inspiring textbook sets out to excite students with an account of what sociology can achieve to help them understand their own lives and the social conditions of our own time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803974616
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/22/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

Table of Contents

Passion
School
Managing
Magic
Stories
Writing
Ink
Reading
Desire
Knowing

Editorial Reviews

‘Overall, I found Passionate Sociology an engaging text which made me reflect on my own teaching practices, and my understanding of sociology. It also effectively highlights some of the key problems with those sociologists we now can categorize as ‘dispassionate' - Thesis Eleven

‘The text is a wonderful demystification of sociology; students can learn an enormous amount from it. What Game and Metcalfe want to do is put the passion back into sociology and thus emancipate the subject and its pleasures from those who would be its High Priests.... Wonderful!' - Keith Tester, Reader in Sociology, Portsmouth University

‘Passionate Sociology is a courageous book that breathes life into the questions that haunt sociology and other disciplines. The joy and the preplexity of writing sociology is made tangible, as is the great wager of how to render textual the machinations of everyday living. It encourages us all to become more attentive and caring students of the social world that we inhabit' - Elspeth Probyn, Director of Women's Studies, The University of Sydney

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