Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination
by Phillips,Bernard SFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-05-30
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 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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