Charles Lemert: 17 books
Going Down for Air
A Memoir in Search of a Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully combines two very different yet connected texts. A Memoir is richly evocative not only of times past, but...
Seeing Sociologically
The Routine Grounds of Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly...
Social Solutions to Poverty
America's Struggle to Build a Just Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental...
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