The sociologist's eye : reflections on social life /
"The culmination of a distinguished career, this exhilarating book offers an invitation to see the world with a sociologist's eye. Eminent sociologist Kai Erikson describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than a simple gathering of facts. He notes that sociol...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a way of looking
- Approaches: View from the fourteenth floor ; The individual and the social ; Knowing the place for the first time ; Disaster at Buffalo Creek
- Beginnings: Human origins ; Discovering the social ; Coming to terms with social life ; The journey of Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak
- Places: Village ; City ; Worlds beyond ; It seemed like the whole bay died
- Processes: Becoming a person ; Creating divisions ; Becoming a people ; War comes to Pakrac
- Postcripts.
