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Book review: what use is sociology? conversations with Zygmunt Bauman, Michael-Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester

Olivia Mena-2014-05-26-London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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This conversational book with Zygmunt Bauman looks at the usefulness of sociology with an aim to inspire future conversations about the discipline. Olivia Mena found this book to be a sounding board of the timeless but central questions which social theorists and practitioners must revisit regularly in the everyday practice of the ‘scientific sorcery’ that is sociology.

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This conversational book with Zygmunt Bauman looks at the usefulness of sociology with an aim to inspire future conversations about the discipline. Olivia Mena found this book to be a sounding board of the timeless but central questions which social theorists and practitioners must revisit regularly in the everyday practice of the ‘scientific sorcery’ that is sociology.

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SociologyMedia studiesEpistemologySocial sciencePhilosophy

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