Stretching the Sociological Imagination: Essays in Honour of John Eldridge

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Exploring an Industrial Structure of Feeling: Creating Industrial Gemeinschaft in a Twentieth-Century Workplace....Pages 25-42
John Eldridge’s Adventures with Cross-Classification in the Sociology of Work....Pages 43-64
‘When All Hell Breaks Loose’: Striking on the British Coalfields 1984–85....Pages 65-82
False Self-Employment....Pages 83-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
On the (Alternative) Worlds That We Have Lost: Sociology and The Third Way Revisited....Pages 101-119
The Media and Collective Memory: The Obituaries of Academics....Pages 120-140
The Humanitarian Crisis in Sociology....Pages 141-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Sociology, Propaganda and Psychological Operations....Pages 163-188
Sociology of the Media: Towards an Ideal Journalistic Practice....Pages 189-207
Sociology and Journalism: The Search for a Historical Imagination....Pages 208-225
The Martian Invasion and the Sociological Imagination....Pages 226-245
Conclusion: Stretching the Sociological Imagination in the Neo-Liberal Academy....Pages 246-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-277