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New Sociological Imagination
Olli Pyyhtinen
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Description for New Sociological Imagination
Hardback. This book is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. It argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human world, and is sensitive to the multiple scales on which things exist. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human world, and is sensitive to the multiple scales on which things exist. A fresh and innovative take on the promise of sociology, this book will appeal to scholars and students both within sociology and the social sciences more broadly.
More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human world, and is sensitive to the multiple scales on which things exist. A fresh and innovative take on the promise of sociology, this book will appeal to scholars and students both within sociology and the social sciences more broadly.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137531834
SKU
V9781137531834
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99-15
About Olli Pyyhtinen
Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and 'the Social' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Gift and its Paradoxes (2014), and Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, with Veijola et al). ... Read more
Reviews for New Sociological Imagination
"Olli Pyyhtinen's stunningly original book dares us to think against the grain of the professional pathologies of sociology including its fixation on static substances and the micro/macro split by thinking with the dynamic relationships and heterogeneous collectives that make up our experience of social life on multiple scales. Drawing creatively from both classical and contemporary theorists and elaborating on a ... Read more