Open to Disruption
Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology
Contributor(s)
Garey, Anita Ilta (editor)
Nelson, Margaret K. (editor)
Hertz, Rosanna (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies.<br><br>Some researchers describe how disruptions prompted them to expand the boundaries of their discipline and invent concepts that could more accurately describe phenomena that previously had no name and no scholarly history. Sometimes scholars themselves caused the disruption as they circled back to work they had considered "done" and allowed the possibility of rethinking earlier findings.
Keywords
Social Science; SociologyISBN
9780826519863Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressPublisher website
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/Publication date and place
2014Imprint
Vanderbilt University PressClassification
Sociology