Uncertain outlines

The book subject is forms of the contemporary society , such a concrete images , that are very hard, almost promethean , to describe but in the medium range (Merton). It can be done through its shapes , its self-definition and self-reproduction processes that make the (even modest) sociologist, a real entronaut , to do constant reembedding and conceptual disembedding operations, that appear acrobatically correct and aim to continuously build the discourse on a discourse , belonging to it and making it meaningful. Thinking sociologically (Bauman) mainly means a disciplined look that is methodologically grounded on daily practices, revised in cognitive maps overcoming the immediacy and situatedness of the practice itself and making to talk about social science possible.

Autorentext

Pierfranco Malizia,PhD, is professor of Sociology at the Department of Economical and Political Sciences at the LUMSA University in Rome (IT), visiting professor at the ISCEM in Lisboa (PT) and at the UNISINOS of Porto Alegre (BRA); is also performing many activities of research,conferences and seminars in different countries.

Klappentext

The book subject is "forms of the contemporary society", such a "concrete images", that are very hard, almost "promethean", to describe but "in the medium range" (Merton). It can be done through its "shapes", its self-definition and self-reproduction processes that make the (even modest) sociologist, a real "entronaut", to do constant reembedding and conceptual disembedding operations, that appear acrobatically correct and aim to continuously build "the discourse on a discourse", belonging to it and making it meaningful. "Thinking sociologically" (Bauman) mainly means a disciplined look that is methodologically grounded on daily practices, revised in cognitive maps overcoming the immediacy and situatedness of the practice itself and making to talk about "social science" possible.