Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Director of the Notre Dame Center for Social Research, Principal Investigator of the National Study of Youth and Religion, and Principal Investigator of the Science of Generosity Initiative.
Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project.
Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its founding fathers were mostly atheists. Its basic operating premises are secular and naturalistic. Sociologists today are disproportionately not religious, compared to all Americans, and often irreligious.
The Sacred Project of American Sociology shows, counter-intuitively, that the secular enterprise that everyday sociology appears to be pursuing is actually not what is really going on at sociology's deepest level. Christian Smith conducts a self-reflexive, tables-turning, cultural and institutional sociology of the profession of American sociology itself, showing that this allegedly secular discipline ironically expresses Emile Durkheim's inescapable sacred, exemplifies its own versions of Marxist false consciousness, and generates a spirited reaction against Max Weber's melancholically observed disenchantment of the world.
American sociology does not escape the analytical net that it casts over the rest of the ordinary world. Sociology itself is a part of that very human, very social, often very sacred and spiritual world. And sociology's ironic mis-recognition of its own sacred project leads to a variety of arguably self-destructive and distorting tendencies. This book re-asserts a vision for what sociology is most important for, in contrast with its current commitments, and calls sociologists back to a more honest, fair, and healthy vision of its purpose.
發表於2024-11-27
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為什麼首腦和智囊更重視經濟學和政治學而邊緣化社會學?為什麼整個社會學領域教職最多的是犯罪和越軌?為什麼即使在中國社會學給人的印象也隻是傢長裏短?答案都在本書。 這是2014年底的新書,關於對美國社會學本身的批判,作者Christian Smith是就職於聖母大學的有名社會學傢...
評分為什麼首腦和智囊更重視經濟學和政治學而邊緣化社會學?為什麼整個社會學領域教職最多的是犯罪和越軌?為什麼即使在中國社會學給人的印象也隻是傢長裏短?答案都在本書。 這是2014年底的新書,關於對美國社會學本身的批判,作者Christian Smith是就職於聖母大學的有名社會學傢...
評分為什麼首腦和智囊更重視經濟學和政治學而邊緣化社會學?為什麼整個社會學領域教職最多的是犯罪和越軌?為什麼即使在中國社會學給人的印象也隻是傢長裏短?答案都在本書。 這是2014年底的新書,關於對美國社會學本身的批判,作者Christian Smith是就職於聖母大學的有名社會學傢...
評分為什麼首腦和智囊更重視經濟學和政治學而邊緣化社會學?為什麼整個社會學領域教職最多的是犯罪和越軌?為什麼即使在中國社會學給人的印象也隻是傢長裏短?答案都在本書。 這是2014年底的新書,關於對美國社會學本身的批判,作者Christian Smith是就職於聖母大學的有名社會學傢...
評分為什麼首腦和智囊更重視經濟學和政治學而邊緣化社會學?為什麼整個社會學領域教職最多的是犯罪和越軌?為什麼即使在中國社會學給人的印象也隻是傢長裏短?答案都在本書。 這是2014年底的新書,關於對美國社會學本身的批判,作者Christian Smith是就職於聖母大學的有名社會學傢...
圖書標籤: 社會學 美國 經科 社會學 社會史 政治正確 學術史 sociology
結尾一章叫做What is sociology good for?這是個很嚴肅的反問句
評分今天就乾瞭掃這本書一件事
評分今天就乾瞭掃這本書一件事
評分所謂sacred無非是指占據道德高地的很難質疑的政治正確性,如果你遵循瞭嚴謹的研究設計和調查方法,最後卻得齣諸如“同性戀父母教育齣的孩子確實與異性戀父母的孩子有差”這樣政治不正確的結論該如何收場呢?根據書裏的例子,即使通過瞭peer review,也是不能發錶的,也是要在同行的博客裏被批判為political whore的呦~很有意思的一本書,而且作為一本學術書籍來說太過有趣瞭一些。
評分結尾一章叫做What is sociology good for?這是個很嚴肅的反問句
The Sacred Project of American Sociology 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載