Authors of Their Own Lives
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Authors of Their Own Lives

Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists

  1. 534 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Authors of Their Own Lives

Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists

About this book

All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, extraordinary determination, and sometimes plain good fortune are among the many forces that combine to mold the individual talents presented in Authors of Their Own Lives. With contributions from women and men, young and old, native-born Americans and immigrants, quantitative scholars and qualitative ones, this book provides a fascinating source for students and professional sociologists alike. Some of the autobiographies maintain their reserve, others are profoundly revealing. Their subjects range from childhood, educational, and intellectual influences, to academic careerism and burnout, to the history of American sociology. Authors stands alone as a deeply personal autobiographical account of contemporary sociology.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520065567
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520341197
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Introduction
  4. PART I. ACADEMIC MEN
  5. 1. Imagining the Real
  6. 2. Becoming an Academic Man
  7. 3. Columbia in the 1950s
  8. 4. My Life and Soft Times
  9. PART II. DOING IT THEIR OWN WAY
  10. 5. The Crooked Lines of God
  11. 6. Looking for the Interstices
  12. 7. Working in Other Fields
  13. 8. From Socialism to Sociology
  14. PART III. MOBILITY STORIES
  15. 9. An Unlikely Story
  16. 10. Learning and Living
  17. 11. Reflections on Academic Success and Failure: Making It, Forsaking It, Reshaping It
  18. 12. Becoming an Arty Sociologist
  19. PART IV. THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN SOCIOLOGISTS
  20. 13. Seasons of a Woman's Life
  21. 14. A Woman's Twentieth Century
  22. 15. Personal Reflections with a Sociological Eye
  23. 16. Research on Relationships
  24. PART V. THE EUROPEAN EMIGRATION
  25. 17. Partisanship and Scholarship
  26. 18. From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo
  27. 19. Relativism, Equality, and Popular Culture
  28. 20. How I Became an American Sociologist
  29. Index

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