Bernard S. Phillips's Books

Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems

Advancing the Sociological Imagination

By: Bernard S Phillips,J. David Knottnerus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems

Advancing the Sociological Imagination

By: Bernard S Phillips,J. David Knottnerus

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described continues to define our world more than ever before. In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317262891

ISBN 13

9781317262893

Armageddon or Evolution?

The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems

By: Bernard S Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Armageddon or Evolution?

The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems

By: Bernard S Phillips

We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317263553

ISBN 13

9781317263555

Understanding Terrorism

Building on the Sociological Imagination

By: Bernard S Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding Terrorism

Building on the Sociological Imagination

By: Bernard S Phillips

Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

221

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317249844

ISBN 13

9781317249849

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Beyond Control Freaks, Conformity, and Tunnel Vision

By: Bernard S. Phillips,David Christner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Beyond Control Freaks, Conformity, and Tunnel Vision

By: Bernard S. Phillips,David Christner

Revolution in the Social Sciences centers on integrating knowledge from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science and economics in order to confront increasing worldwide problems that threaten all of us. That integration of knowledge of human behavior is essential for understanding those problems, given their enormous complexity coupled with the highly specialized nature of the social sciences and their limited communication across specialized fields. It carries further the ideas developed by the Sociological Imagination Group in the seven books it has published since its founding in 2000 (www.sociological-imagination.org): Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel, Toward a Sociological Imagination, The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society, Understanding Terrorism, Armageddon or Evolution? Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems, and Saving Society. In addition to visible problems like war and terrorism with weapons of mass destruction that are becoming ever more threatening, there are relatively invisible problems. For example, there is an increasing gap between what people throughout the world want--including a decent standard of living and freedom from patterns of hatred like racism, sexism and ageism--and what they are in fact able to get. There is, then, an increasing aspirations-fulfillment gap, largely produced by the "revolution of rising expectations" over the past five centuries. Political leaders who attempt to confront problems can only make limited progress on them, largely because of the failure of social scientists to integrate their knowledge and thus yield the understanding of these complex problems that is required.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0739171992

ISBN 13

9780739171998

Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel

Reconstructing the Scientific Method

By: Bernard S. Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel

Reconstructing the Scientific Method

By: Bernard S. Phillips

To look outside the discipline of sociology is to find little credibility given to the field as science. Bernard Phillips argues that we are learning to see ever more clearly the contradiction between scientific standards and what in fact has been achieved by sociology. Instead of knowledge based on the full range of our findings, we have separate pieces of knowledge located within the diverse areas of the discipline, and fads and fashions in the ideas and terms we use with relatively little cumulative development. This has led many to question whether any "scientific method" can be applied to human behavior. If the arguments and alternative interpretations in this book on the problematic nature of sociology's use of scientific method prove to be credible and fruitful, then the implications are profound. For example, the conclusions drawn for every single social science study that has ever been conducted would be open to reinterpretation, because they fail to take into account systematically the enormous complexity involved within any given instance of human behavior. Our present approach assumes implicitly that the pieces of the human jigsaw puzzle can at some point be put together so as to yield a coherent picture. Yet, as Phillips shows, if each piece is itself deficient, then no coherent picture emerges when we attempt to put the pieces together. Refusing to take the current fragmentation of sociology as inevitable, Phillips offers a clear vision, through a series of heuristic "web" images, of how sociologists might achieve the cumulative development and credibility that are the hallmarks of any science. His research draws heavily on the works of classical and contemporary theorists, philosophers, and historians of science, as well as on postmodernist critiques and responses to postmodernism. This reconstruction will be useful for courses in method in the study of the classical tradition of sociology. Bernard Phillips was introduced to sociology at Columbia University by C. Wright Mills. A former professor of sociology at Boston University, cofounder of the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and founder of the Sociological Imagination Group, his publications emphasize methodology and theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

AldineTransaction

Published Date

ISBN 10

0202306658

ISBN 13

9780202306650

Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society

Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions

By: Bernard S Phillips,Louis C. Johnston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society

Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions

By: Bernard S Phillips,Louis C. Johnston

Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists. They find substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an alternative worldview can work to close that gap.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317257405

ISBN 13

9781317257400

Goffman Unbound!

A New Paradigm for Social Science

By: Thomas J. Scheff,Bernard S Phillips,Harold Kincaid

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Goffman Unbound!

A New Paradigm for Social Science

By: Thomas J. Scheff,Bernard S Phillips,Harold Kincaid

Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham University "Scheff's critical eye is equal to his subject, shrewdly appreciating Goffman's many virtues while also showing where and how Goffman's thinking needs revision and development. This original and provocative book offers a fresh interpretation of Goffman and will become a benchmark for all subsequent commentary." Greg Smith, University of Salford One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually invisible to us. Goffman's genius was to recognize and describe this world as no one had before. The book synthesizes prior scholarly commentary on Goffman's work, and includes biographical material from his life, untangling some of the many puzzles in Goffman's work and life. Scheff also proposes ways of filling gaps and false starts. One chapter explores the meaning of the emotion of love, another of hatred. These and other new directions could facilitate the creation of a microsocial science that unveils the emotional/relational world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317258789

ISBN 13

9781317258780

Saving Society

Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life

By: Bernard S Phillips,David Christner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Saving Society

Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life

By: Bernard S Phillips,David Christner

Why do many problems throughout the world seem to be getting worse? Saving Society argues that a dramatic change in our mode of thinking is required. The authors show how many of our fundamental assumptions lead to an overly bureaucratic approach, blocking solutions to many of our problems. They contrast our present emotional repression and conforming behaviour with a more liberated form of perception, thought and emotional expression, which could allow us to break out of these bureaucratic routines. Saving Society shows how this alternative approach might lay the basis for more effective and democratic institutions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

287

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317252519

ISBN 13

9781317252511

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

By: Richard John Howarth,Bernard E. Leake

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

By: Richard John Howarth,Bernard E. Leake

Frank Coles Phillips was a photographer, mineralogist and structural petrologist and was very influential, both in the UK and abroad. He was responsible for encouraging the development of structural geology as a discipline in Australia and for the adoption of the stereogram as a fundamental interpretational tool in structural geology in the UK. Phillips was the first to apply the methods of structural petrology to unravel the complex structural history of the Moine rocks of northwestern Scotland, with controversial results.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

110

Publisher

Geological Society of London

Published Date

ISBN 10

1862391025

ISBN 13

9781862391024

The History of Upshur County, West Virginia

From Its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time : Illustrated

By: William Bernard Cutright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The History of Upshur County, West Virginia

From Its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time : Illustrated

By: William Bernard Cutright

As a body, these records are extracted from roughly 750 known Bibles and extend from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, with the greatest concentration from the mid-19th century. Most of the entries refer to births, marriages, and deaths and in most cases indicate the name(s) of the principals, the date of the event, and, sometimes, such supplementary information as his/her age or address, the maiden name of a parent, etc. Each Bible record is identified by family name and followed by a reference to the Huguenot Society records where the original can be found. In all, the records refer to more than 2,500 main families named in the surname index at the back of the volume and embrace a staggering 25,000 individuals of Huguenot or possible Huguenot ancestry--connections and allied families that would otherwise be lost to us in the unpublished files of this august organization.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

780

Publisher

Genealogical Publishing Com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806346353

ISBN 13

9780806346359

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

By: Bernard Spodek,Olivia N. Saracho

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

By: Bernard Spodek,Olivia N. Saracho

The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children is the essential reference on research on early childhood education throughout the world. This singular resource provides a comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues as well as the information necessary to make informed judgments about these issues. The field has changed significantly since the publication of the second edition, and this third edition of the handbook takes care to address the entirety of vital new developments.A valuable tool for all those who work and study in the field?of early child.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

619

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135466068

ISBN 13

9781135466060

Atherosclerosis XI

Proceedings of the XIth International Symposium on Atherosclerosis, Held in Paris, France, on 5-9 October 1997

By: Bernard Jacotot,Denis Mathé,Jean-Charles Fruchart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Atherosclerosis XI

Proceedings of the XIth International Symposium on Atherosclerosis, Held in Paris, France, on 5-9 October 1997

By: Bernard Jacotot,Denis Mathé,Jean-Charles Fruchart

Hardbound. International Congress Series 1155These Proceedings will allow the wide dissemination of the present situation in the research on athero-thrombosis. The volume contains review presentations and new advances on all fields related to cardiovascular diseases: lipoprotein metabolism, genetic, epidemiology, vascular biology, thrombosis, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, pharmacology, clinical trials, therapy and risk factors

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1238

Publisher

Elsevier Science & Technology

Published Date

ISBN 10

0444826513

ISBN 13

9780444826510

Book's by Bernard S. Phillips

Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems

Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems

Armageddon or Evolution?

Armageddon or Evolution?

Understanding Terrorism

Understanding Terrorism

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel

Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel

Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society

Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society

Goffman Unbound!

Goffman Unbound!

Saving Society

Saving Society

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

The History of Upshur County, West Virginia

The History of Upshur County, West Virginia

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

Atherosclerosis XI

Atherosclerosis XI

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email