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How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #9)
The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grass... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy
by John Levi Martin • Ann Mische • Stefan Timmermans • Iddo Tavory • Paul Lichterman • Jeffrey Parker • Daniel Silver • Mario Small • Daniel Huebner • Luis Flores • Josh Whitford • Mazen Elfakhani • Cayce Hughes • Vontrese Pamphile • Natalie B. Aviles • Susan Silbey • Karida Brown • Luna Vincent • Daniel CefaiPragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022