Journeys in Sociology

From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements

Rosalyn Benajmin Darling, Peter J. Stein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2017
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1475-5 (ISBN)

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For most sociologists, their life's work does not end with retirement. Many professors and practitioners continue to teach, publish, or explore related activities after leaving academia. They also connect with others in the field to lessen the isolation they sometimes feel outside the ivory tower or an applied work setting. The editors and twenty contributors to the essential anthology Journeys in Sociology use a life-course perspective to address the role of sociology in their lives. The power of their personal experiences-during the Great Depression, World War II, or the student protests and social movements in the 1960s and '70s-magnify how and why social change prompted these men and women to study sociology. Moreover, all of the contributors include a discussion of their activities in retirement. From Bob Perrucci, Tuck Green, and Wendell Bell, who write about issues of class, to Debra Kaufman and Elinore Lurie, who explain how gender played a role in their careers, the diverse entries in Journeys in Sociology provide a fascinating look at both the influence of their lives on the discipline and the discipline on these sociologists' lives. Contributors include: David J.
Armor, Wendell Bell, Glen H. Elder, Jr., Henry W. Fischer, Janet Zollinger Giele, Charles S. (Tuck) Green, Peter Mandel Hall, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Debra Renee Kaufman, Corinne Kirchner, Elinore E. Lurie, Gary T. Marx, Robert Perrucci, Fred Pincus, Thomas Scheff, Arthur Shostak, David Simon, Natalie J. Sokoloff, Edward Tiryakian, Joyce E. Williams, and the editors Published in collaboration with the American Sociological Association Opportunities in Retirement Network.

Rosalyn Benjamin Darling is Professor Emerita, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the author of ten books including Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society. Peter J. Stein is Professor Emeritus, William Paterson University and Senior Researcher at the University of North Carolina Institute on Aging. He is the editor of The Forum on North Carolina's Aging Workforce, and co-author, with Elizabeth Markson, of Social Gerontology: Issues and Prospects.

Acknowledgments Introduction * Rosalyn Benjamin Darling Part I: Children of the Great Depression 1. Toward a Sociology of the Future * Wendell Bell 2. Semper Sociology * Edward A. Tiryakian 3. Three Lives in Two Americas * Robert Perrucci 4. The Life Course of My Career * Glen H. Elder Jr. 5. Six Sociologists from Wayne County, Ohio * Janet Zollinger Giele 6. The Sociological Consequences of Choosing Radical Parents: The Political, the Personal, and the Professional * Peter Mandel Hall 7. My Professional Life: A Brief Memoir * Thomas Scheff 8. My Life in Sociology, Sociology in My Life * Elinore E. Lurie 9 Have You Noticed ... ? * Corinne Kirchner Part II: Coming of Age in the Postwar Years 10. A Life in Sociology * Charles S. Green III 11. Permission Slip for Life as an Applied Sociologist * Arthur Shostak 12. What's It All About? Reflections on Meaning in a Career * Gary T. Marx 13. My Journey with Sociology * Joyce E. Williams 14. Sociology, Politics, and Policy * David J. Armor 15. The Last of Life for Which the First Was Made * Debra Kaufman 16. A Sociological Memoirist * Fred L. Pincus 17. Retiree * Natalie J. Sokoloff 18. Spreading the Sociological Imagination to Lay Audiences * David R. Simon 19. Networking across Stages of a Career * Elizabeth Higginbotham 20. The Impact of Sociology on One Man's Life * Henry Fischer Conclusion * Peter J. Stein Contributors Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2017
Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4399-1475-3 / 1439914753
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-1475-5 / 9781439914755
Zustand	Neuware