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Canadian sociologists in the first person / edited by Stephen Harold Riggins and Neil McLaughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--History--Canada--20th century.
- Sociology.
- Sociologists--Canada--Biography.
- Sociologists.
- Canada--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (525 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Canada : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Exploring what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from a first-person perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CANADIAN SOCIOLOGISTS IN THE FIRST PERSON
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE PROFESSIONAL SOCIOLOGY
- 1 Marginality, Structure, Agency: A Slow Learner Confronts Sociology
- 2 Adventures of a Chronic Meanderer
- 3 The Contested Profession: A Sociological Autobiography
- 4 Choices and Non-Choices: Waltzing with the Micro/Macro in Sociology
- PART TWO POLICY SOCIOLOGY
- 5 A Career Based on Coincidence
- 6 Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Interdisciplinary Travels of a Political Sociologist
- 7 Studying the War in the Woods and Other Environmental Controversies from the Left Coast
- 8 From West Coast to East Coast, from Activism to Academia
- PART THREE POLITICAL ECONOMY
- 9 Reflections on a Sociological Career: An Academic Autobiography
- 10 How Do We Know What We Know? A Feminist Life and Times in Canadian Sociology
- 11 From Ugly American to Critical Sociologist - in Five Decades
- 12 Learning Sociology: A Participant's Perspective
- 13 Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Becoming a Sociologist
- PART FOUR SOCIAL ACTIVISM
- 14 My Favourite Problems
- 15 From Residential School to University Professor
- 16 "I Know You Are, But What Am I?": Race, Nation, and the Everyday
- 17 "What the ___ Are You Going to Do with Sociology?": Race, Community, and Professional Life
- PART FIVE ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
- 18 On Becoming a Professional Stranger
- 19 Before Cultural Studies Became a Buzzword
- 20 In a Strange Nation in My Nation Itself
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228007753
- 0228007755
- 9780228007746
- 0228007747
- OCLC:
- 1240421594
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