Authors of Their Own Lives - Intellectual Autobiographies By Twenty American Sociologists

Informationen zum Autor Bennett M. Berger is Professor of Sociology at the University of California! San Diego. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Twenty of America's most prominent sociologists, including Jessie Bernard, Guenther Roth, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Barbara Rosenblum, Pepper Schwartz, David Riesman, Alice S. Rossi and Reinhard Bendix, recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTRIBUTORS: Reinhard Bendix Bennett M. Berger Jessie Bernard James S. Coleman Donald R. Cressey Cynthia Fuchs Epstein John Gagnon Herbert J. Gans Nathan Glazer Andrew M. Greeley Joseph Gusfield Dean MacCannell Gary T. Marx David Riesman Barbara Rosenblum Alice S. Rossi Guenther Roth Pepper Schwartz Pierre L. van den Berghe Dennis Wrong ...

Product details

• Authors: Bennett M. Berger
• Assisted by: Bennett M. Berger (Editor), Berger Bennett M. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1992
• EAN: 9780520065567
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06556-7
• No. of pages: 503
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences