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Sociologists and Social Progress: How Defeating Narratives Affect U.S. and Caribbean Sociological Academies

Sociologists and Social Progress: How Defeating Narratives Affect U.S. and Caribbean Sociological Academies

Miller, O. Alexander

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0739138782
ISBN13: 9780739138786
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 16 2010
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book utilizes narratives from U.S. and Caribbean scholars to examine the viability of sociologists changing the world from below through sporadic interdependent networks (Piven 2008). The conclusion reached is that in its current state, the academy can do little to improve conditions in society, as sociologists are themselves embattled by defeating narratives revolving around: poor personal experiences; the recalcitrance of Old World history; European epistemological meta-narratives, and; the multi-paradigmatic criteria for determining sociological knowledge. If sociologists are to finally influence society then the academy has to first overcome its calcified European and Anglo-American principles of domination.

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