Problem-Solving Sociology
A Guide for Students
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 January 2022
- ISBN 9780197558492
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 208x147x10 mm
- Weight 295 g
- Language English 226
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Short description:
In Problem-Solving Sociology, Monica Prasad uses the traditions of sociological research to solve real-world problems, and uses the attempt to grapple with real-world problems as a way to reformulate understandings of society and renew or reinvent those traditions.
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A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society.
Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs eager to engage with the pressing social and political issues of the day. Yet that initial enthusiasm does not always survive the professional socialization of graduate school. In Problem-Solving Sociology, Monica Prasad shows graduate students and early career sociologists how to conduct research that uses sociological theory to help solve real-world problems, and how to use problem-solving to improve sociological theory. Prasad discusses how to be objective when examining issues of injustice and oppression, and provides methodological strategies and plenty of exercises for research aimed at creating change. She gives examples throughout of problem-solving research conducted at all levels, from undergraduate theses to the major figures of the discipline. She also considers how to respond to some common objections; where problem-solving fits into the landscape of sociological practice; and how to build a life in problem-solving.
Prasad has combined two books in one. The first is a witty and subversive guidebook for students that maps the pathway they should follow to create excellent and impactful social science. The second is a profound meditation on the sociology of knowledge that deserves a wide audience. She has updated Mills' Sociological Imagination for the 21st century." -Fred Block, Research Professor, University of California-Davis
Table of Contents:
1. The Thought Machine
2. But is it Objective?
3. Victims and Villains
4. A Magic Trick: Research Design for Problem-Solving
5. The View from Mars
6. Decision Points and Exercises (1): Finding Your Project
7. Decision Points and Exercises (2): Troubling Your Assumptions
8. Decision Points and Exercises (3): Clarifying and Defending Your Argument
9. The Place of Problem Solving in American Sociology
10. An Orrery of Objections
11. When to Stop Problem Solving
12. Building Your Own Boat
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Index
