On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination (Heritage of Sociology Series) - Softcover

Hughes, Everett C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226359727 ISBN 13: 9780226359724

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

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. Clair Drake, and Horace Cayton.

About this title

About the Author:

Everett C. Hughes was professor of sociology at Boston College and The University of Chicago. He is the author of French Canada in Transition, Men and Their Work, and Where Peoples Meet.

Lewis A. Coser (1913-2003) began his career teaching at the University of Chicago followed by the University of California. Upon leaving California he went to teach for fifteen years at Brandeis University, where he founded the sociology department, before finally settling in at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He was the first sociologist to bring together the ideas of conflict theory and structural functionalism. He is a past American Sociologist Association president and author of many works, including Conflict and Consensus, Masters of Sociological Thought, and The Functions of Social Conflict.

From the Back Cover:

The writings in this volume address the central themes and methods of the discipline and highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions, of race and ethnicity. With renewed interest in the Chicago School's focus on ethnography, field research, and community studies, this volume will be an important resource for scholars across the social science disciplines.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226359727
• ISBN 13: 9780226359724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Coser Lewis A.