Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination

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ISBN: 9781594516535 | 1594516537
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/30/2009

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On this fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Mills's The Sociological Imagination, the "bureaucratic ethos" that he described has continued to escalate. The 11 authors of this book carry further and systematically develop Mills's broad vision of the scientific method as they analyze escalating bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Scientific Method	p. 5
The Sociological Imagination and Social Problems	p. 23
Reclaiming the Sociological Imagination: A Brief Overview and Framework	p. 25
Putting It All Together: Toward Increasing Sociology's Relevance to Ecological Research	p. 39
C. Wright Mills and Education	p. 55
Structural Ritualization Theory: Application and Change	p. 70
Harry Braverman and the Working Class	p. 85
The Web Approach to State Strategy in Puerto Rico	p. 99
Macho/Madonna Link? Hypermasculine Violence as a Social System	p. 119
Institutionalized Elder Abuse: Bureaucratic Ritualization and Transformation of Physical Neglect in Nursing Homes	p. 134
Discipline and Publish: Public Sociology in an Age of Professionalization	p. 156
Public Opinion and Social Movements: A Sociological Analysis	p. 172
Conclusions	p. 187
Deep Dialogue and Deep Democracy	p. 189
The East-West Strategy	p. 203
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 218
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Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination

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