New Social Connections: Sociology's Subjects and Objects

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 14
1 Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on, Disciplinarity and Intellectual Specialisation......Page 27
2 Nouns and Verbs: Old and New Strategies for Sociology......Page 44
3 Sociological Theory: Still Going Wrong?......Page 67
4 A Plea for Earthly Sciences......Page 85
5 Complexity, ‘Nature’ and Social Domination: Towards a Sociology of Species Relations......Page 98
6 The Death of History in British Sociology: Presentism, Intellectual Entrepreneurship, and the Conundra of Historical Consciousness......Page 118
7 Sociology and Post-colonialism: Another ‘Missing’ Revolution?......Page 138
8 Towards a Multiplication of Specialised Assemblages of Territory, Authority, and Rights......Page 154
9 The Changing Life-Course in British Sociology......Page 167
10 Aspirations and Opportunities: A Career in Sociology......Page 186
11 Cracking the Ivory Tower: Proposing ‘an Interpretive Public Sociology’......Page 193
12 Sand in the Machine: Encouraging Academic Activism with Sociology HE Students Today......Page 217
13 The Sociological Imagination As Popular Culture......Page 246
Index......Page 266