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

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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.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/28/1977 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521292252, 978-0521292252
      ISBN10: 0521292255
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      Description

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

      Table 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.

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