Andrew Abbott: 9 books
Digital Paper
A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern...
by Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both...
The System of Professions
An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the...
by Barbara Celarent, Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through...
Sociologia n. 1/2015
Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Riflettendo sulla “Scuola” di sociologia di Chicago ANDREA BIXIO, RAFFAELE RAUTY Premessa RAFFAELE RAUTY Sociologi a Chicago, una “Scuola”, una comunità scientifica ALESSANDRA LORINI Percorsi dell’America progressista tra Otto e Novecento JEAN-MICHEL CHAPOULIE La tradition de Chicago et...
Brief Remarks to be Read at Salerno Conference on the Chicago School
Published in Sociologia n. 1/2015. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Riflettendo sulla “Scuola” di sociologia di Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
"Dear Colleagues: I send you greetings from Hyde Park, where the one hundred and twentysecond Autumn Quarter of University of Chicago is right now at its midpoint. The students are hurrying through the quadrangles; the University Libraries are packed with faces worried about midterm examinations;...
Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT
Protectors Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
41 writers. One cause.
We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew...
by Jon and Ruth Jordan, Megan Abbott, Dana Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Since 2005, Murder & Mayhem in Muskego has welcomed and hosted over 150 authors a thousands of fans of crime fiction to the Milwaukee area. Just in time for the 8th annual benefit, a short story anthology featuring bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the day-long...
by Andy Conway, David Wake, A.A. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Take a walk down Birmingham's main street, at the heart of England, and experience 400 years of historical fiction, fantasy, time travel, crime and comedy.
An unlikely threesome re-enact Jaws on the Brindley Place canals; a Polish immigrant escaping the 1980 Solidarity crackdown tries to find...