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  title info:
    title: Taking it big
    sub title: developing sociological consciousness in postmodern times
  name:
    name part: Dandaneau, Steven P.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 271 pages ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Sociology, or, imaginative reflections from empirically damaged life. What is this book about? Is this book depressing? Max Weber and the classical view of modernity. Sociology as critical theory. Developing an orientation to self and society -- The big picture, or, a brief survey of our dying world. More life, more death. More sun, less fun. The significance of conservation biology. Social facts as social fate? -- The small picture, or, yesterday's dystopia as today's everyday life. The making of the big picture. The making of the small picture. At the edges of the small picture. Emotions in postmodern times. Postmodern bodies. Agency and power. Is there no way out? -- Toward a postmodern sociological imagination and a sociological imagination for postmodern times. What is the sociological imagination? Postmodern extremes. Looking back on Mills. Applying the sociological imagination : three models -- A wrong child : analyzing the unanalyzable. Getting to know James Lyon Berube. Identity versus non-identity. Arrogant categories. The necessity of conceptualization and communication. Mimesis. World-historical mimesis? -- The shadow cast by Chistmas in purgatory. Generation X : a phantom subject. What is Generation X? The origin of Generation X. The cultural apparatus -- Enter the improbable guru of the 60's . Whither the sociological imagination?. Radicalizing the sociological imagination. Generation X's common destiny -- Religion and society : of gods and demons. The classical view of religion. Observable patterns. Religious institutions as social institutions. Of deferred dreams and blasted hopes. Religion and social change. The borderland between faith and reason. The sociological imagination and religious fundamentalism. Convergence at the extremes? The social forces working against the sociological imagination -- The degradation of the public sphere. Propaganda techniques. The public sphere and the mass media. Beyond Time magazine. Theorizing the degradation of t…
  note: Steven P. Dandaneau.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Critical thinking
  subject:
    topic: Critical theory
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: HM585 .D36 2001
  classification: 301
  identifier: 0761987037
  identifier: 00010928
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 000816
    record change date: 20151023093051.0
    record identifier: in00001649527