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Passionate Sociology

  • ISBN-13: 9780803974609
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
  • By Ann Game, By Andrew W. Metcalfe
  • Price: AUD $480.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 24/09/1996
  • Format: Hardback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 430g
  • Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
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Too often sociology is taught as a detached system of thought and practice. Passion is regarded as something to be avoided or treated with suspicion. This text demonstrates passionate sociology. Providing an account of what sociology can achieve, this work introduces and develops a number of major themes, including identity, knowledge, metaphor, magic, desire, power, everday life and cultural mediation. It argues that students should analyze these themes through practices of reading, writing, speaking, learning, storytelling, performing and organizing. The authors bring students to the subject through a controlled engagement with practical sociological ideas and ways of seeing, and thus encourage readers to participate in the creative possibilities of sociology.
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`Overall, I found Passionate Sociology an engaging text which made me reflect on my own teaching practices, and my understanding of sociology. It also effectively highlights some of the key problems with those sociologists we now can categorize as `dispassionate' - Thesis Eleven `The text is a wonderful demystification of sociology; students can learn an enormous amount from it. What Game and Metcalfe want to do is put the passion back into sociology and thus emancipate the subject and its pleasures from those who would be its High Priests.... Wonderful!' - Keith Tester, Reader in Sociology, Portsmouth University `Passionate Sociology is a courageous book that breathes life into the questions that haunt sociology and other disciplines. The joy and the preplexity of writing sociology is made tangible, as is the great wager of how to render textual the machinations of everyday living. It encourages us all to become more attentive and caring students of the social world that we inhabit' - Elspeth Probyn, Director of Women's Studies, The University of Sydney
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