Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life (4th edition)

By: Charles C. Lemert

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Synopsis: Lemert (sociology, Wesleyan U.) describes his frustrations and accommodations to a life in sociology, along with the moments in which he and his discipline are one while examining the history of trends within sociology from the middle of the nineteenth to the last quarter of the twentieth, ending with the years in which he claims sociology discovered its "complicated vocation." Along with his pithy observations on why sociologists tended to think what and when, he is particularly acute in describing why globalization came at a time when it could only make poverty and deprivation, which were already on the rise, worse for more people, and what sociologists can do about the situation and still be human beings.