The Making of a Sociologist: Between Being and Knowing

by John H. Goldthorpe

Book Overview

This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent sociologist. It conceptualises the complex relation that exists between being and knowing, and between the personal knowledge that comes from lived experience and the essentially impersonal knowledge that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032974907
• ISBN13: 9781032974903
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages