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Problem-solving sociology : a guide for students / Monica Prasad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prasad, Monica, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Methodology.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Monica Prasad uses the traditions of sociological research to solve real-world problems, and uses the attempt to grapple with real-world problems as a way to reformulate understandings of society and renew or reinvent those traditions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Problem-Solving Sociology A Guide for Students
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. The Thought Machine
- 2. What Is a Problem?
- 3. Victims and Villains
- 4. A Magic Trick: Research Design for Problem-Solving
- 5. The View from Mars
- 6. Decision Points and Exercises (1): Finding Your Project
- 7. Decision Points and Exercises (2): Troubling Your Assumptions
- 8. Decision Points and Exercises (3): Clarifying and Defending Your Argument
- 9. The Place of Problem-Solving in American Sociology
- 10. An Orrery of Objections
- o We Already Know How to Change the World
- the Problem Is Political Will
- o This Is Too Incremental
- What We Really Need to Do Is Overthrow Capitalism
- o This Is Too Instrumental and Utilitarian
- What about Knowledge for Knowledge's Sake?
- o This Is Technocratic
- o Activism Will Discredit Sociology
- o Calling Things Problems Is the Problem
- o We Have Tried Problem-Solving Before and It Never Works, Because Humans Don't Have This Kind of Agency
- o Who Am I to Try to Solve a Problem-Especially If It Involves a Group I Don't Belong to or a Different Country?
- o What's Really Hard is Asking New Questions, We Need to Make Problems Not Solve Them, We Need to Speak Truth to Power
- 11. When to Stop Problem-Solving
- 12. Building Your Own Boat
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-755851-8
- 0-19-755852-6
- 0-19-755850-X
- OCLC:
- 1273980353
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