The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy

Description

Frontmatter Contents 1. Pragmatist Sociology histories and possibilities 2. What Sociologists Should Get Out of Pragmatism 3. Self-Reflection and Social Responsibility in Research" lessons from early pragmatist historical investigations 4. Problem Situation Misassessment and the Financial Crisis 5. Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Sociology 6. Disambiguating Dewey; or Why Pragmatist Action Theory Neither Needs Nor Asks Paradigmatic Privilege 7. Problem-Solving in Action: a Peirceian account 8. Projective and Responsive Creativity Among On-Demand Workers 9. Words Versus Actions in the Network Behavior of Low-Income African Americans 10. Scientific Innovation as Environed Social Learning 11. Why Do Biologists and Chemists Do Safety Differently? the reproduction of cultural variation through pragmatic regulation 12. Accidental Discovery and the Pragmatist Theory of Action: The emergence of a boston police and black ministers partnership 13. Pragmatist Comparative-Historical Sociology 14. American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro 15. The Public Arena a pragmatist concept of the public sphere 16. Finding the Future in Pragmatist Thought: imagination, teleologies, and public deliberation Index