The Sense of Socialbility: How People Overcome the Forces Pulling Them Apart

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-544168-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Are human beings a species in constant need of firm, aggressive government to save us from ourselves? Or are we fundamentally sociable beings, woven together in a complex array of networks, interdependent and willing to work together? The Sense of Sociability is a modern, highly readable, and often idiosyncratic look at human sociability by one of Canada's top sociologists. Lorne Tepperman explores why we have difficulty getting along, and why in spite of
these difficulties we still manage for the most part to live together. Without interference from poor government and other malign influences, he argues, people can work out a great deal of their lives themselves. Tepperman, one of Canada's foremost sociologists, sees it as his job to look at our "unwashed"
history to reveal how ordinary people doing ordinary things is the process that makes human history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tepperman, Lorne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Über Autor(innen)

Lorne Tepperman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a certificate in population studies from Princeton. Apart from serving as Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale, he has spent his career at U of T (from which he graduated with an honours BA in 1965). He served as Chair of the Sociology Department at U of T from 1997 to 2003, and has also been elected President of the Canadian Sociological Association and
received the CSA's Outstanding Contribution Award. He has written and edited more than two dozen books on various areas of sociology, including the bestselling introductory sociology text, Sociology: Canadian Perspectives (Second Edition, 2009).