Private Sociology Unsparing Reflections,

Each contributor to this book has used personal experience as the basis from which to frame his individual sociological perspectives. Because they have personalized their work, their accounts are real, and recognizable as having come from 'real' persons, about 'real' experiences. There are no objectively-distanced disembodied third person entities in these accounts. These writers are actual people whose stories will make you laugh, cry, think, and want to know more.

Acknowledgements, Disclaimer, and Invitation

xi

Preface: On Getting Personal

1

(6)

Introduction: Private Sociology --- Through a Prism of Private Perspectives

7

(7)

Part I Sharing Self Through Sociology --- and Vice Versa

Childhood Revisited

14

(30)

``Socialization for Change: The Cultural Heritage of the White Southern Woman.''

15

(9)

Sarah Brabant

``Multiple Reflections of Child Sex Abuse.''

24

(20)

Carol Rambo Ronai

Parenting as Challenge

44

(26)

``Infant Industry: Marketing to New Parents.''

45

(8)

Ross Koppel

``Men and the Art of Mothering: A Case Study in the Relationship Between Theory and Practice.''

53

(17)

Issac D. Balbus

Class and Race Legacy

70

(51)

``Life as Masquerade.''

72

(10)

Don Eckard

``Questions of Assertion, Diversity, and Spirituality: Simultaneously Becoming a Minority and a Sociaologist.''

82

(10)

Z. G. Standing Bear

``Reflections of a White Racist.''

92

(8)

Don. H. Shamblin

``The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small Southern Town.''

100

(21)

Carolyn Ellis

Sociology as Challenge

121

(32)

``Private Sociological Labour: Using Sociology in an Academic and Union Career.''

122

(15)

Kristine Anderson Dougherty

``Reflections: On Hard Work.''

137

(6)

Barbara Katz Rothman

``Dirty Details Your Methods Text Forgot to Mention: Some Strategies for the Defensive Sociologist.''

143

(10)

Barbara A. Haley

Taking an Uncommon Stand

153

(20)

``I Always Was a Religious Kid.''

154

(11)

Douglas V. Porpora

``Choosing Stigma.''

165

(8)

Joseph W. Ruane

Ancient Quest, Modern Tools

173

(16)

``Ecofeminism Found: One Woman's Journey to Liberation.''

174

(6)

Ann Goetting

``Law as a Story in Our Lives: A Personal Account.''

180

(9)

David O. Friedrichs

On Reconsideration

189

(16)

``On Second Thought: Exercises in an Endangered Art Form.''

190

(6)

Arthur B. Shostak

``On Having Been a Scientologist, or the Value of Not Hanging Around the Edges of Things, Looking In.''

196

(9)

Roger A. Straus

Reconciliation

205

(32)

``Reconciliation in a Back-Alley Cafe of Saigon.''

206

(10)

William B. Brown

``Life Mirrors Work Mirrors Text Mirrors Life.''

216

(16)

Marianne A. Paget

``When Time Doesn't Heal the Wound.''

232

(5)

Jan Yager

Life Affirmation

237

(14)

``The Way of Autobiographical Reflection.''

238

(13)

Richard Quinney

Part II Sharing Private Sociology: Advice and Perspective

251

(14)

``Advice on Teaching and Writing Private Sociology.''

252

(6)

Arthur B. Shostak

``The Biologizing of the Individual and The Naturalization of the Social.''

258

(7)

Robert L. Stewart

Larry T. Reynolds

Epilogue

265

(2)

Notes on Contributors

267

(5)

Annotated Bibliography

272

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