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The Sacred Project of American Sociology by Christian Smith *Books Online »PDF

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The Sacred Project of American Sociology

Editorial : "What, one might ask, could possess a well-established and well-known sociologist to write an account of his discipline as a sacred project while at the same time exposing its close-minded outlook? The answer Christian Smith provides is both bracing and sad, bracing in its thoroughness and originality, and sad in the very necessity to shine such a light on a discipline that is largely blind to the unintended consequences of its lopsided claims about the nature of social reality. Smith's observations are a carefully assembled, empirical confirmation that sociology still has important insights and ideas to convey to both students and the public, but that it has failed decisively in its efforts to account for life beyond the very narrow confines of its own expectations about what is right and wrong with that life."-Jonathan B. Imber, Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology and Editor-in-Chief of Society"Christian Smith has developed a fresh and creative perspective on contemporary

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