Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Sociology as Secret Writing: Lessons from Postmodernism Chapter 3 Learning Discipline Discursively Chapter 4 Beginning Science Chapter 5 Method as the Main Text Chapter 6 Concluding Science Chapter 7 "Maybe the Reviewer is Just Dense": Review and Revision as Argument Chapter 8 Was Sociology Always Like This? Chapter 9 Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism Chapter 10 Has Mainstream Sociology Gone Public?
Ben Agger (1952–2015) was professor of sociology and humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington. He also directed the Center for Theory and edited the electronic journal Fast Capitalism (www.fastcapitalism.com). Among his recent books are Postponing the Postmodern, Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, Fast Families, and Virtual Children (with Beth Anne Shelton).
Ben Agger asks many important questions about the promise of
sociology in an era of cold facts and hard convictions. They are
questions that younger sociologists in particular ought to be
asking of themselves and of the discipline in which they make an
intellectual home. Sociology could become the first true science of
pluralism if those within it acknowledge and resist the strongest
of the ideological winds blowing in all directions. The new
material in this edition, particularly Agger's narrative account of
the ASA coming to terms with "public" sociology, is timely and a
permanent reminder that the profession's fate is tied directly to
its leadership.
*Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College*
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