ISBN:
9781138790605
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (167 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Ideas and Intervention (RLE Social Theory) : Social Theory for Practice
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Theorizing in sociology has increasingly become a self-generating and self-fulfilling activity, as sociologists absorb theory as an isolated and formalist part of their discipline. Joe Bailey believes that sociological theory should be a contribution to practical social intervention. His book presents a practical view of social theorizing as an activity at which sociologists are skilled and which they could teach to the interventionist professions. The relation between theory and practice is defined as one in which theory guides practice and makes explicit necessary choices. A description of d
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Sociology''s place; Theory and practice in general; Theory and practice in science; The humanities; Practical sociology; Theoretical sociology; Identity of the ''crisis''; 2 Disciplines and professions; Disciplines; Disciplines and professions; Sociology, expertise and the intellectual; 3 Law and social theory; Why theorize?; Jurisprudence; What law might ask of sociology; What social theory might ask of law; The sociology of deviance
Description / Table of Contents:
Conflict and consensusIndividualism and collectivism; 4 Social work and social theory; Welfare; The disciplinary basis of social work; Social work as theoryless practice; Psychiatry and politics as disciplinary bases; Sociology and social work; Systems theory; Theoretical overkill; Structure, culture and theory; 5 Planning and social theory; The history of planning; Planning in the system; Planning as a system; The ''old'' urban sociology; The ''new'' urban sociology; Planners and sociological theory; 6 Social theory for intervention; The discipline of sociology
Description / Table of Contents:
Theory and practice in generalRecent developments; The commitments of sociology; The primacy of suffering; The place of theory; Theoretical pluralism; The importance of pluralism; Schism and fragmentation in sociology; Modes of pluralism; Notes; Subject Index; Name Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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