Authors of their own lives : intellectual autobiographies by twenty American sociologists / / Bennett M. Berger

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1990]; ©1990
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 503 p. )
• Disciplina: 301/.092/2
• Soggetto topico: Sociology - Biographical methods; Sociologists - United States; Sociology - United States - History; Sociology - Biographical methods - United States; Sociology - History
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century scholarship; 20th century sociology; academic men; academics; american sociology; autobiography; biographical events; burnout; career; childhood influences; contemporary sociology; determination; educational influences; emigration; equality; ethnicity; family history; fear; immigration; intellectual events; intellectual influences; mobility; personal accounts; personal stories; popular culture; private animosity; psychology; relativism; socialism; sociologists; sociology; women sociologists
• Altri autori: BendixReinhard BerghePierre L. van den BernardJessie ColemanJames S. <1926-1995> CresseyDonald R Fuchs EpsteinCynthia GagnonJohn GansHerbert J GlazerNathan GreeleyAndrew M GusfieldJoseph MacCannellDean MarxGary T RiesmanDavid RosenblumBarbara RossiAlice S RothGuenther SchwartzPepper WrongDennis
• Persona (resp. second.): BergerBennett M.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining the Real -- 2. Becoming an Academic Man -- 3. Columbia in the 1950's -- 4. My Life and Soft Times -- 5. The Crooked Lines of God -- 6. Looking for the Interstices -- 7. Working in Other Fields -- 8. From Socialism to Sociology -- 9. An Unlikely Story -- 10. Learning and Living -- 11. Reflections on Academic Success and Failure: Making It, Forsaking It, Reshaping It -- 12. Becoming an Arty Sociologist -- 13. Seasons of a Woman's Life -- 14. A Woman's Twentieth Century -- 15. Personal Reflections with a Sociological Eye -- 16. Research on Relationships -- 17. Partisanship and Scholarship -- 18. From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo -- 19. Relativism, Equality, and Popular Culture -- 20. How I Became an American Sociologist -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Contains autobiographies by Dennis Wrong, David Riesman, James S. Coleman, Joseph Gusfield, Andrew M. Greeley, Bennett M. Berger, Dean MacCa.
• Titolo autorizzato: Authors of their own lives
• ISBN: 0-520-34119-8; 0-520-90908-9; 0-585-23440-X; 0-585-28928-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910496136003321
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