ABSTRACT
This is an exhilarating book, written by one of sociology’s most imaginative theorists and critics. Professor Corrigan proceeds by turning old answers into new questions. He draws on a rich tradition of thought from sociology, philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism, and literary criticism to explore major ongoing problems in everyday life: moral regulation, schooling, the capitalist world economy, intellectuals, and the problem of difference, masculinity. The result is one of the most dazzling contributions to critical sociology published in recent years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |12 pages
Part One
part Two|226 pages
Essays: The Sociology of a Subject
chapter Chapter Two|48 pages
Feudal Relics or Capitalist Monuments? Notes on the Sociology of Unfree Labour 1 (1976)
chapter Chapter Four|25 pages
Towards a Celebration of Difference(S): Notes for a Sociology of a Possible Everyday Future (1981)
chapter Chapter Six|14 pages
The Body of Intellectuals/The Intellectuals’ Body (Remarks For Roland) 1 (1986)
part Three|22 pages
Interlude: Methods in the Madness
chapter Chapter Eight|4 pages
Review of Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs by Paul E. Willis (1978) *
chapter Chapter Nine|3 pages
Review of the Poverty of Theory and Other Essays By E. P. Thompson (1979)*
chapter Chapter Eleven|8 pages
Review of The Rules are No Game And Man and Woman, War and Peace by Anthony Wilden (1988)*
part |28 pages
Part Four