Part 1 What can sociology do?
one The sociologist as voyeur 17
Liza Schuster
two Why sociology? 23
Mark Featherstone
three Sociology as a science/technology of freedom 29
Zygmunt Bauman
four Why sociology matters 35
Anthony Giddens
fve Passion, curiosity and integrity 41
Beverley Skeggs
six Sociology as democratic knowledge 49
John Holmwood
seven Pushing at the boundaries of the discipline: politics, 55
personal life and the psychosocial
Sasha Roseneil in conversation with Katherine Twamley
eight Growing up as a sociologist in rural Shropshire 71
John D Brewer
nine On the right-of-way 77
Judith Burnett
ten Living sociology 83
Les Back in conversation with Katherine Twamley
Part 2 What does it mean to be a sociologist?
eleven Sociology for some, someone’s sociology… 99
Yvette Taylor
twelve Imagining social science 109
Ann Oakley
thirteen From accidental to ambitious sociology 117
Linsey McGoey
fourteen Sociographer by design? Boundary crossings and 123
interdisciplinarity
Yvonne Robinson
ffteen ‘I am a sociologist’; but what exactly is a sociologist and 129
how do you become one?
Claire Maxwell
sixteen Sociology: from committing to being? 135
Paul Hodkinson
seventeen Drift, opportunity, and commitment: the shaping of a 143
professional career
John Scott
eighteen A passion for empirical sociology 153
Eileen Green
nineteen Me, myself and sociology 163
Gayle Letherby
twenty Turning to the psychosocial: drawing on sociology to address 171
societal issues
Ann Phoenix
Part 3 How does one become a sociologist?
twenty-one A long haul 181
Berry Mayall
twenty-two Putting sociology to work in the NHS 187
Jocelyn Cornwell in conversation with Mark Doidge
twenty-three Clinging to the precipice: travails of a contract researcher in 197
sociology
Mel Bartley
twenty-four The pursuit of a sociological career overseas and the 205
navigation of an outsider perspective
Lara Killick
twenty-fve Tales from the feld: applied policy research and the 213
sociological imagination
Carol McNaughton Nicholls
twenty-six What sociology means to me: exploring, imagining and 219
challenging
Kate Woodthorpe
twenty-seven Social science which engages with the real world 225
Anthony Heath in conversation with Andrea Scott
twenty-eight A sporting chance? Notes on an ongoing career in the 235
sociology of sport
Richard Giulianotti
twenty-nine Sociology: involvement and detachment 243
Robert Mears
thirty A career spent orbiting sociology 251
Eric Harrison
thirty-one Researching children’s lives: on becoming and being a 257
sociologist in education
Daniela Sime
thirty-two Following my star 263
Jeffrey Weeks in conversation with Andrea Scott
thirty-three ‘The epoch of belief … the epoch of incredulity’ 273
Howard Wollman
Recommended readings 279
Resources for readers 287
Index 291
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