Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work

by Barry Glassner

Book Overview

What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195146611
• ISBN13: 9780195146615
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"