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Sociology and the Real World
Stephen Lyng
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Description for Sociology and the Real World
Paperback. Stephen Lyng and David Franks posit that contemporary sociology has lost its connection to human realities and address the conceptual underpinnings of sociological practice. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
In this new book, Lyng and Franks argue that contemporary sociology has lost its connection to human realities. Addressing the conceptual underpinnings of sociological practice, they offer ways for sociology to reclaim lost concepts of objectivity, reality, and truth. The authors deconstruct these terms in modern and postmodern contexts, yet they look beyond the usual predicaments espoused by these traditions in an effort to rebuild concepts of reality and truth more coherently for contemporary social relations and social problems.
In this new book, Lyng and Franks argue that contemporary sociology has lost its connection to human realities. Addressing the conceptual underpinnings of sociological practice, they offer ways for sociology to reclaim lost concepts of objectivity, reality, and truth. The authors deconstruct these terms in modern and postmodern contexts, yet they look beyond the usual predicaments espoused by these traditions in an effort to rebuild concepts of reality and truth more coherently for contemporary social relations and social problems.
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742501768
SKU
V9780742501768
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About Stephen Lyng
Dr. Stephen Lyng is professor of sociology at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. David D. Franks is professor of sociology at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Reviews for Sociology and the Real World
An ambitious theoretical undertaking worthy of serious attention. Among the book's scholarly contributions is the sustained effort by Lyng and Franks to establish John Dewey's transactional perspective (clothed in modern garb) as a central feature of sociological investigation.
Gideon Sjoberg, Professor of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin In this carefully reasoned and passionately argued theoretical essay, Stephen Lyng and David D. Franks reclaim ideas - reality, objectivity, truth - that have become the dirty words of social thought. Drawing upon sources as diverse as postmodern theory, pragmatism, and neuroscience, they refuse to abandon these ideas to those who would put them to mindless rhetorical use in defense of a discredited positivism. Rather, they reconstruct the meaning of reality, objectivity, and truth in ways that will usefully reconnect sociology with the world it wants to study and influence. This is fresh, insightful theorizing outside the boxes in which so much contemporary social thought is confined.
John P. Hewitt, Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts at Amherst This is a useful and thoughtful book.
American Journal of Sociology
This book should be read by all sociologists and social scientists who are serious about understanding human group behavior, and who know full well that most questions invite 'it depends' kinds of answers.
Contemporary Sociology
Lyng and Franks bring us back from the brink of postmodernist nihilism and through the murky temptations of formula sociology with the eternal promise of pragmatism. By focusing on transactions, the authors brilliantly show us a way to think about truth, objectivity, and reality that is both interesting and consistent with what we know about the human species. This fine volume will help us all in the move toward pragmatism that general sociology already displays.
David R. Maines, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Oakland University
Gideon Sjoberg, Professor of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin In this carefully reasoned and passionately argued theoretical essay, Stephen Lyng and David D. Franks reclaim ideas - reality, objectivity, truth - that have become the dirty words of social thought. Drawing upon sources as diverse as postmodern theory, pragmatism, and neuroscience, they refuse to abandon these ideas to those who would put them to mindless rhetorical use in defense of a discredited positivism. Rather, they reconstruct the meaning of reality, objectivity, and truth in ways that will usefully reconnect sociology with the world it wants to study and influence. This is fresh, insightful theorizing outside the boxes in which so much contemporary social thought is confined.
John P. Hewitt, Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts at Amherst This is a useful and thoughtful book.
American Journal of Sociology
This book should be read by all sociologists and social scientists who are serious about understanding human group behavior, and who know full well that most questions invite 'it depends' kinds of answers.
Contemporary Sociology
Lyng and Franks bring us back from the brink of postmodernist nihilism and through the murky temptations of formula sociology with the eternal promise of pragmatism. By focusing on transactions, the authors brilliantly show us a way to think about truth, objectivity, and reality that is both interesting and consistent with what we know about the human species. This fine volume will help us all in the move toward pragmatism that general sociology already displays.
David R. Maines, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Oakland University