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Social Meanings of Suicide
This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheim's influential Suicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have patterned their own work on Durkheim's. Douglas points out fundamental weaknesses in the structural-functional study of suicide, and offers an alternative theoretical approach. He demonstrates the unreliability of official statistics on suicide and contends that Durkheim's explanations of suicide rates in terms of abstract social meanings are founded on an inadequate and misleading statistical base. The study of suicidal actions, Douglas argues, requires an examination of the individual's own construction of hi...
Everyday Life
Interest in the ethnomethodology and other phenomenological sociologies grew very rapidly among students and professionals in social science during the latter part of the twentieth century. The growth of this interest was handicapped by the lack of clear, systematic, and comprehensive treatments of their basic ideas and research findings. This book provides the first genuinely intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who would understood these areas of the social sciences and their potential to contribute to understanding of social life. These origi...
Existential Sociology
This collection of ten original essays was first published in 1977. It engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level of thought and experience. Existential sociology is defined as the study and understanding of all forms of human existence. Without seeking to erect a pristine philosophical sanctuary of its own, Existential Sociology examines and criticizes the underlying philosophical assumptions of previous theories of social science, while elaborating its own approach to human understanding. The contributors are concerned with constructing practical as well as theoretical truths about social life - how we feel, think and act. In contrast to most other sociologies, the emphasis is on the independence and dominance of human feelings over the evaluative and cognitive features of social actions. Students and teachers of sociology and people in related fields interested in the connection between social science and their own subjects will find Existential Sociology useful and absorbing.
The Myth of the Welfare State
The Myth of the Welfare Stale is a basic and sweeping explanation of the rise and fall of great powers, and of the profound impacts of these megastates on ordinary lives. Its central theme is the rise of bureaucratic collectivization in American society. It is Douglas's conviction, which he supports with a wealth of detail, that statist bureaucracies produce siagnation, often exacerbated by inflation, which in turn produces the waning of state power.Douglas has his own set of ""isms"" that require concerted attention: mass mediated rationalism, scientism, technologism, credentialism, and expertism. People who make policies have little, if any, awareness of the actual way social processes evo...
Creative Interviewing
Creative Interviewing is an extension of Douglas' successful book Investigating Social Research (SAGE 1976). Using new research and a distinct theoretical approach, Douglas takes a fresh look at one of the social researcher's most widely used tools: interviewing. Moving away from more traditional interviewing techniques, he develops a methodology that works with, instead of against, the situational factors involved. Creative Interviewing embraces the social setting and tries to understand how it affects what is being communicated. By becoming more flexible in their approach and response, creative interviewers increase their chances of discovering the truth. The book is written in an absorbing and lively style, with many case studies illustrating Douglas' technique.
Love, Intimacy, and Sex
According to Douglas and Atwell the greatest value of social science comes from providing a general model which systematically reveals how the discernable truths of a given object of study interact. After first determining these basic assumptions and identifying a suitable methodology, social scient.
Creative Interviewing
Creative Interviewing is an extension of Douglas' successful book Investigating Social Research (SAGE 1976). Using new research and a distinct theoretical approach, Douglas takes a fresh look at one of the social researcher's most widely used tools: interviewing. Moving away from more trad.
Everyday Life
Interest in the ethnomethodology and other phenomenological sociologies grew very rapidly among students and professionals in social science during the latter part of the twentieth century. The growth of this interest was handicapped by the lack of clear, systematic, and comprehensive treatments of their basic ideas and research findings. This book provides the first genuinely intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who would understood these areas of the social sciences and their potential to contribute to understanding of social life. These origi...
