{"product_id":"journeys-in-sociology-9781439914748","title":"Journeys in Sociology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 en\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments      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","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039841419607,"sku":"9781439914748","price":77.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439914748.jpg?v=1750945020","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/journeys-in-sociology-9781439914748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}