Practicing Social Science

<p>How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations show to what extent a "paradigm shift" has taken root, answering questions such as whether sociology still remains a differentiated, relatively autonomous social science. The chosen interviewees are about equally divided according to gender and have been selected from among professional sociologists in different parts of the globe, with an emphasis on areas that are under-represented in English publications, such as East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Analysis focuses on changes which are becoming clear from the on-going confrontation between "traditional" sociology which emerged as a project of modernity, and the sociology practiced by sociologists who are called upon to adapt the discipline to the upheavals of the twenty-first century.</p> <p>NOTES ON INTERVIEWEES</p><p>PREFACE </p><p>INTRODUCTION: PRACTICING SOCIAL SCIENCE</p><p><strong>PART I: DECLARATIONS AND DILEMMAS</strong></p><p>CHAPTER 1. DISCIPLINE, CAREER, PROFESSION: SOCIOLOGY IN PRACTITIONERS' LIVES </p><p>CHAPTER 2. COMMUNITY PROCLAMATIONS: OUTLINING PROFESSIONALISM </p><p>CHAPTER 3. HOW DOES SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION HAPPEN?</p><p>CHAPTER 4. THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION</p><p>CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL CHANGE IN A NUTSHELL: THE BRICS AND ECHOES FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD</p><p><strong>PART II: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT</strong> </p><p>CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWING COLLEAGUES</p><p>CHAPTER 7. THE INTERVIEWS</p><p>CHAPTER 7A. BRAZIL</p><p>SIMON SCHWARTZMAN</p><p>MARIA LIGIA BARBOSA</p><p>JOÃO BACHUR</p><p>CHAPTER 7B. RUSSIA</p><p>DAVID KONSTANTINOVSKIY</p><p>ANNA TEMKINA</p><p>CHAPTER 7C. FROM THE CHINESE WORLD</p><p>HSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO</p><p>AGNES SHU-KEI KU </p><p>XIANGQUN CHANG</p><p>CHAPTER 7D. SOUTH AFRICA</p><p>JOHAN MULLER</p><p>TINA UYS</p><p>MARYAM SEEDAT KHAN</p><p>CHAPTER 7E. FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD</p><p>HABIBUL KHONDKER </p><p>ÇIĞDEM ADEM</p><p>CHAPTER 8. SUBTLETIES OF PRACTICE: CONTINUITIES AND SMALL SHIFTS</p><p>POSTWORD: RECAPITULATION WITH CLUES FOR DESIGNING FURTHER INQUIRY</p><p>REFERENCES</p><p>INDEX</p>