On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination

by Everett C. Hughes

Book Overview

The writings in this volume highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of the discipline. Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained attention to occupations as a field for study and wrote frequently and searchingly about them. Several of the essays in this collection helped orient the first generation of Black sociologists, including Franklin Frazier, St...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226359727
• ISBN13: 9780226359724
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"