Mad hazard : a life in social theory

Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner's later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutio...

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Main Author Turner, Stephen P., 1951- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v.38.
Subjects
Turner, Stephen P., > 1951-
Sociologists > Florida > Biography.
College teachers > Florida > Biography.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
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electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781803826714
DOI10.1108/S0278-1204202238
Physical Description1 online resource (340 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Harry F. Dahms and Robert J. Antonio
  • Chapter 1. Meet the family
  • Chapter 2. Born into chicago: Participant observer in a time of racial succession
  • Chapter 3. Miami: The quest for normalcy at the edge of change
  • Chapter 4. Four colleges in fifteen months: Higher learning in the sixties
  • Chapter 5. Tulane and new orleans: Sociology as an identity
  • Chapter 6. Semi-graduate student: Becoming a theorist in a time of troubles
  • Chapter 7. Florida forever: Surviving in a discipline in crisis
  • Chapter 8. Refugee from the war in sociology: Conflict and contention in seventies sociology and the alternative of philosophy of social science
  • Chapter 9. Reconstructing the philosophical thought of durkheim and weber and the turn to science studies
  • Chapter 10. Graduate research professor and divorce: Professional crisis and the turn to history of sociology
  • Chapter 11. New love and the return to philosophy: Living beyond disciplines in a disciplinary world
  • Chapter 12. The social theory of practices: Understanding practices naturalistically
  • Chapter 13. Pyrrhic victories and a family: Leaving the sociology of the nineties
  • Chapter 14. The nineties, postmodernism, normativity and other controversies: Practices between cognitive science and ethics
  • Chapter 15. Strange encounters in the history of sociology and in archives: Learning from archives and the politics of collection
  • Chapter 16. Causal models again: Understanding statistical causality and its problems
  • Chapter 17. Cognitive science: The mutual implications of the cognitive revolution and sociology
  • Chapter 18. Cleaning up: Reconciling normativity, collective intentionality, and the brain
  • Chapter 19. Politics and law: Kelsen, weber, and the defense of democracy epilogue: Luck and the future of academic thought.

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