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Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure
to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited
ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given
that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the
integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not
only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or
applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination
castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and
this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human
complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only
the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that
problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the
integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on
the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic
and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.
Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure
to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited
ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given
that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the
integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not
only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or
applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination
castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and
this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human
complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only
the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that
problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the
integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on
the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic
and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.
Is there a growing gap in today 's world between cultural
aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social
problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap?
How can these forces be changed?To answer these questions, Phillips
and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method,
drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including
sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians,
philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists.They find
substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible
crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial
evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or
worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an
alternative worldview can work to close that gap.
"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure
for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about
recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly
and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are
necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious
analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham
University "Scheff's critical eye is equal to his subject, shrewdly
appreciating Goffman's many virtues while also showing where and
how Goffman's thinking needs revision and development. This
original and provocative book offers a fresh interpretation of
Goffman and will become a benchmark for all subsequent commentary."
Greg Smith, University of Salford One of the seminal sociologists
of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our
understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We
all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually
invisible to us. Goffman's genius was to recognize and describe
this world as no one had before. The book synthesizes prior
scholarly commentary on Goffman's work, and includes biographical
material from his life, untangling some of the many puzzles in
Goffman's work and life. Scheff also proposes ways of filling gaps
and false starts. One chapter explores the meaning of the emotion
of love, another of hatred. These and other new directions could
facilitate the creation of a microsocial science that unveils the
emotional/relational world.
"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure
for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about
recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly
and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are
necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious
analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham
University "Scheff's critical eye is equal to his subject, shrewdly
appreciating Goffman's many virtues while also showing where and
how Goffman's thinking needs revision and development. This
original and provocative book offers a fresh interpretation of
Goffman and will become a benchmark for all subsequent commentary."
Greg Smith, University of Salford One of the seminal sociologists
of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our
understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We
all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually
invisible to us. Goffman's genius was to recognize and describe
this world as no one had before. The book synthesizes prior
scholarly commentary on Goffman's work, and includes biographical
material from his life, untangling some of the many puzzles in
Goffman's work and life. Scheff also proposes ways of filling gaps
and false starts. One chapter explores the meaning of the emotion
of love, another of hatred. These and other new directions could
facilitate the creation of a microsocial science that unveils the
emotional/relational world.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological
Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he
described continues to define our world more than ever before. In
Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven
contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad
vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating
bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many
pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.
For the first time in history we humans are experiencing a wide
range of increasing problems that threaten us with extinction, if
not today or tomorrow then the day after tomorrow. Yet we have the
capacity with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method
that builds on Mills s concept of the sociological imagination to
confront those problems ever more effectively. Armageddon or
Evolution? carries forward the broad scientific approach that
Phillips developed in four previous books: "Beyond Sociology s
Tower of Babel" (2001), "Toward a Sociological Imagination" (2002,
edited), "The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society" (2007, with
Louis Johnston), and "Understanding Terrorism" (2007, edited).
Excerpts from these books can be found on
www.sociological-imagination.org. Everyone academics and
nonacademics alike can learn to use that scientific method in
everyday life, following the East-West and deep dialogue strategies
Phillips describes. These are procedures for achieving nothing less
than conscious evolution. They require us to uncover our
fundamental assumptions along with their contradictions and move
toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve those
contradictions. And they also require us to open up to the full
range of knowledge from the social sciences, philosophy, literature
and beyond invoked by Mills and illustrated in this book."
Why are a wide range of problems increasing throughout the world at
this time in history? Einstein claimed that the unleashed power of
the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we
thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. The current worldwide
economic crisis indicates that we are experiencing highly
threatening problems in addition to nuclear Armageddon that we fail
to understand.Following Einstein s implicit suggestion, we require
nothing less than changing our modes of thinking. This is what
Phillips and Christner point toward in tackling our fundamental
assumptions or metaphysical stance. They see our bureaucratic way
of life as much of the basis for escalating problems. Yet fully
half of the book is devoted to presenting an alternative: an
evolutionary worldview and way of life. They build on our two most
powerful tools, presently used only to a limited extent: language
and the scientific method. By so doing, they contrast our present
outward perception and thought, emotional repression, and
conforming behavior with inward-outward perception and thought,
emotional expression, and deep action and interaction. This
alternative is linked to evolutionary social structures such as
deep dialogue, deep democracy, and institutions that confront their
problems ever more effectively. They presents a worldview coupled
with a strategy for moving toward it based on realism no less than
idealism, or the glass half empty as well as the glass half
full.Saving Society addresses our escalating social problems by
building on key ideas from recent books of the Sociological
Imagination Group, including "Beyond Sociology s Tower of Babel"
(2001), "Toward a Sociological Imagination" (2002), "The Invisible
Crisis of Contemporary Society" (2007), "Understanding Terrorism"
(2007), "Armageddon or Evolution?" (2009) and "Bureaucratic Culture
and Escalating Problems" (2009). It makes use of language s
dichotomous, gradational, and metaphorical potentials coupled with
a broad and systematic approach to the scientific method,
presenting an image of the future for the individual no less than
for society."
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological
Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he
described continues to define our world more than ever before. In
Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven
contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad
vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating
bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many
pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.
For the first time in history we humans are experiencing a wide
range of increasing problems that threaten us with extinction, if
not today or tomorrow then the day after tomorrow. Yet we have the
capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method
that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to
confront those problems ever more effectively. Armageddon or
Evolution? carries forward the broad scientific approach that
Phillips developed in four previous books: "Beyond Sociology's
Tower of Babel" (2001), "Toward a Sociological Imagination" (2002,
edited), "The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society" (2007, with
Louis Johnston), and "Understanding Terrorism" (2007, edited).
Excerpts from these books can be found on
www.sociological-imagination.org. Everyone-academics and
nonacademics alike-can learn to use that scientific method in
everyday life, following the "East-West" and "deep dialogue"
strategies Phillips describes. These are procedures for achieving
nothing less than conscious evolution. They require us to uncover
our fundamental assumptions along with their contradictions and
move toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve those
contradictions. And they also require us to open up to the full
range of knowledge-from the social sciences, philosophy, literature
and beyond-invoked by Mills and illustrated in this book.
Is there a growing gap in today 's world between cultural
aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social
problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap?
How can these forces be changed?To answer these questions, Phillips
and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method,
drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including
sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians,
philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists.They find
substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible
crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial
evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or
worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an
alternative worldview can work to close that gap.
Die Daten, die das Rohmaterial fur HOMANS' Theorie bilden, sind die
empirischen Thesen, die er selbst in The Human Group entwickelte,
sowie zahlreiche andere seit dem 2. Weltkrieg erschienene Studien.
HOMANS macht den Versuch, diese Forschungsergebnisse durch
Extrapolation allgemeiner Thesen der Wirtsdtafts- wissenschaftund
der Verhaltenspsydtologie zu erklaren. fu LEY, MATILDA WHITE,
Sociological Research: A Case Approach.New York 1963. Eine Vielzahl
bekannter Studien wird zur Veransdtaulidtung verschiedener Moeg-
lidikeiten der Datensammlung herangezogen. Zu jeder dieser Studien
wird ein ausfuhrlicher Kommentar geboten. Daneben werden sie aber
auch in ihrer gegen- seitigenBezogenheit betrachtet, ROMMETVEIT,
RAGNAR, Social Norms and Roles. Minneapolis 1954. Im ersten Teil
dieser Monographie entwickelt der Autor eine eigene Theorie der
sozialen Rolle und setzt sie zu den wesentlichen Werken der uber
dieses Thema vorliegenden Literatur in Beziehung; im zweiten Teil
stellt er die Ergebnisse ver- schiedeuer Versuche einer
UEberprufung von Teilen seiner Theorie dar. ROMMET- V EITS Werk
bildet damit ein Beispiel fur die Art und Weise, wie die Sammlung
von Daten durch eine vorher entwickelte Theorie gelenkt und
gesteuert wird. V. Das Experiment 1. Einleitung Das Experiment hat
als Methode zur Sammlung und Analyse von Daten einen so immens
grossen Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Natur- wissenschaften
geleistet, dass es weithin als die Grundlage der wissen-
schaftlichen Methode gilt. Im Bereich der Sozialwissenschaften
wurde esbisher hauptsachlich von den Psychologen verwendet, doch
bestehen Anzeichen dafur, dass es auch innerhalb der Soziologie und
anderer Sozialwissenschaften weitere Verbreitung zu finden beginnt.
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