Canadian Sociologists in the First Person - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0228006716 ISBN 13: 9780228006718

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. But despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the practice with skepticism.

Canadian Sociologists in the First Person is the first book to survey the Canadian sociological imagination through personal recollections. Exploring the lives and experiences of twenty contributors from across the country, this book connects the unique and shared features of their careers to broad social dynamics while providing a guide to their own research and administrative contributions to their universities, their profession, and their broader society and communities. The contributors teach in different types of institutions, are prominent in the discipline and in their specializations, and represent significant and diverse intellectual currents, political perspectives, and life and career experiences.

Aiming to start a broad conversation about what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from an insider's perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Authors

Stephen Harold Riggins is honorary research professor of sociology at Memorial University.

Neil McLaughlin is professor of sociology at McMaster University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228006716
• ISBN 13: 9780228006718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Riggins Stephen, McLaughlin Neil