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The Sociologist's Eye : Reflections on Social Life / Kai T. Erikson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erikson, Kai T., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Sociologists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (429 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A masterful introduction to and appreciation of sociology as a window into our world The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that sociologists look out at the same human scenes as poets, historians, economists, or any other observers of the vast social landscape spread out before them, but select different aspects of that vast panorama to focus on and attend to. Erikson's lively and accessible volume considers how sociology became a field of study, and how it has turned its attention over time to new areas of study such as race and gender and what Erikson calls "social speciation." This book provides readers with new ways of thinking about human culture and social life-an exhilarating sense of what the world looks like when viewed with a sociologist's eye.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: A Way of Looking
- approaches
- View from the Fourteenth Floor
- The Individual and the Social
- Knowing the Place for the First Time
- Disaster at Buffalo Creek
- BEGINNINGS
- Human Origins
- Discovering the Social
- Coming to Terms with Social Life
- The Journey of Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak
- PLACES
- Village
- City
- Worlds Beyond
- It Seemed Like the Whole Bay Died
- PROCESSES
- Becoming a Person
- Creating Divisions
- Becoming a People
- War Comes to Pakrac
- Postscripts
- Sources
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-23177-6
- OCLC:
- 1032362602
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