{"product_id":"our-studies-ourselves-sociologists-lives-and-work-hardcover-2","title":"Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Glassner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRosanna Hertz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts of life influence research agendas, individual understandings of the world, and ultimately the shape of the discipline as a whole.\u003cbr\u003eBarry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz asked twenty-two of America's most prominent sociologists to reflect upon how their personal lives influenced their research, and \u003cem\u003evice versa\u003c\/em\u003e, how their research has influenced their lives. In this volume, the authors reveal with candor and discernment how world events, political commitments and unanticipated constraints influenced the course of their careers. They disclose how race, class, and gender proved to be pivotal elements in the course of their individual lives, and in how they carry out their research. Faced with academic institutions that did not hire or promote persons of their gender, race, sexual orientation, or physical disability, they invented new routes to success within their fields. Faced with disappointments in political organizations to which they were devoted, they found ways to integrate their disillusionment into their research agendas. While some of the contributors radically changed their political commitments, and others saw\u003cbr\u003emore stability, none stood still.\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate look at biography and craft, these snapshots provide a fascinating glimpse of the sociological life for colleagues, other academics, and aspiring young sociologists. The collection demonstrates how inequalities and injustices can be made into motors for scholarly research, which in turn have the power to change individual life courses and entire societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Glassner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eThe Culture of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel of Food\u003c\/em\u003e (in progress). He had a cameo in Michael Moore's recent movie, \u003cem\u003eBowling for Columbine\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eRosanna Hertz\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Luella LaMer Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of the widely acclaimed \u003cem\u003eMore Equal than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages\u003c\/em\u003e and appears frequently in the broadcast media commenting on social problems for local news specials. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors include: \u003cbr\u003eKathleen M. Blee\u003cbr\u003eHéctor L. Delgado\u003cbr\u003eSusan A. Ostrander\u003cbr\u003eMark S. Mizruchi\u003cbr\u003eWilliam H. Friedland\u003cbr\u003eHoward Schuman\u003cbr\u003eJohn Walton\u003cbr\u003eHerbert J. Gans\u003cbr\u003ePhyllis Moen\u003cbr\u003eArlene Skolnick\u003cbr\u003eJane Mansbridge\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Fuchs Epstein\u003cbr\u003eDorothy E. Smith\u003cbr\u003eBarrie Thorne\u003cbr\u003eRobert R. Alford\u003cbr\u003eGary L. Albrecht\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Winship\u003cbr\u003eSherryl Kleinman\u003cbr\u003eJody Miller\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Gamson\u003cbr\u003eShulamit Reinharz\u003cbr\u003eVerta Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 278\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.44 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42035130761296,"sku":"9780195146615","price":143.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/eFNuQTlpODFkQlhQZEhFaUloZUkzQT09_5bc7ac44-2d05-4122-8d93-62af3996d0bb.webp?v=1771837992","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/our-studies-ourselves-sociologists-lives-and-work-hardcover-2","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}