Existential Sociology

This collection of ten original essays engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level of thought and experience.

List of contents

Introduction; About the contributors; Part I. Aspects of Existential Sociology: 1. Existential sociology Jack D. Douglas; Part II. The Fundamental Issues and Existential Sociology: 2. The emergence of existential thought: philosophical perspectives on positivist and humanist forms of social theory Richard H. Brown; 3. The existential thought of Jean Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Andrea Fontana and Richard Van de Water; Part III. The Phenomenological Sociologies and Existential Sociology: 4. The sociology of Alfred Schutz David L. Altheide; 5. Ethnomethodology and existential sociology John M. Johnson; 6. Practical reasoning in action John P. Anderson; Part IV. Beyond the Rational Frontwork: 7. Behind the rational appearances: fusion of thinking and feeling in sociological research John M. Johnson; 8. Occasioned transcendence John M. Johnson; Part V. The Existential Self: 9. The chronic pain experience Joseph A. Kotarba; 10. The existential self in the gay world Carol A. B. Warren and Barbara Ponse; Appendix: the origins of existential sociology Jack D. Douglas; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Beginning in the 1930s, the Emmy-award-winning Douglas wrote for the comic greats Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, and Jimmy Durante." On television his regular appearances on the late-night shows of Jack Paar and others set the bar for the comedians of a generation.

Summary

This collection of ten original essays engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level of thought and experience.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Douglas, Jack D. Douglas
• Assisted by: Jack D Douglas (Editor), Jack D. Douglas (Editor), Douglas Jack D. (Editor), John M Johnson (Editor), John M. Johnson (Editor), Johnson John M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1977
• EAN: 9780521292252
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29225-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology and anthropology