How I write: Sociology as Literature
Verleihung des Gerda Henkel Preises 2008
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2009
Book
92 pages
978-3-930454-93-8 (ISBN)
Description
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Alle Texte im Band sind abgedruckt in deutscher wie auch in englischer Sprache.
Inhalt:
Zum Geleit / Foreword
Julia Schulz-Dornburg
Grußwort / Preface
Annette Schavan
Begrüßung / Welcoming remarks
Michael Hanssler
Bericht der Jury / Report of the Jury
Ralf Dahrendorf
Laudatio / In honor of Richard Sennett
Wolfgang Frühwald
How I write: Sociology as Literature /
Wie ich schreibe: Soziologie als Literatur (Gerda Henkel Vorlesung)
Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett
Vita, ausgewählte Publikationen / Vita, Selected Publications
Textauszug:
. I want next, therefore, to talk about the craft of social writing. What I'm going to describe to you are issues drawn from my own experience - I certainly would not hold myself up as a shining example of writing well, and certainly there are many other solutions to the problems of expressive writing than those I've found. But the problems themselves, I would claim, are generic to socially minded literature.
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Today, many social scientists are menaced by exclusion from this public realm, due to their feeble powers of expression. This feebleness is not simply a personal failing. The history of academic institutions seeking to protect their freedom, the specialization and bureaucratization of knowledge, are general sources of intellectual isolation; the feebleness of shared intelligence is but one tangible result. The depth of what researchers know becomes incommunicable, due to a lack of expressive tools; the public is left with the husks, the surfaces of knowledge.
Alle Texte im Band sind abgedruckt in deutscher wie auch in englischer Sprache.
Inhalt:
Zum Geleit / Foreword
Julia Schulz-Dornburg
Grußwort / Preface
Annette Schavan
Begrüßung / Welcoming remarks
Michael Hanssler
Bericht der Jury / Report of the Jury
Ralf Dahrendorf
Laudatio / In honor of Richard Sennett
Wolfgang Frühwald
How I write: Sociology as Literature /
Wie ich schreibe: Soziologie als Literatur (Gerda Henkel Vorlesung)
Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett
Vita, ausgewählte Publikationen / Vita, Selected Publications
Textauszug:
. I want next, therefore, to talk about the craft of social writing. What I'm going to describe to you are issues drawn from my own experience - I certainly would not hold myself up as a shining example of writing well, and certainly there are many other solutions to the problems of expressive writing than those I've found. But the problems themselves, I would claim, are generic to socially minded literature.
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Today, many social scientists are menaced by exclusion from this public realm, due to their feeble powers of expression. This feebleness is not simply a personal failing. The history of academic institutions seeking to protect their freedom, the specialization and bureaucratization of knowledge, are general sources of intellectual isolation; the feebleness of shared intelligence is but one tangible result. The depth of what researchers know becomes incommunicable, due to a lack of expressive tools; the public is left with the husks, the surfaces of knowledge.