The writings of a distinguished sociologist and accompanying original essays that reflect on the development of his soci
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Table of contents :
Cover
REDEFINING THE SITUATION
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1 Social Disintegration as a Requisite of Resocialization
2 Structured Uncertainty and Its Resolution: The Case of the Professional Actor
3 On the Nature of Rule Following
4 On the Failure of Positivism
5 A Common Sense Conception of Deviance
6 Confrontation
7 A Letter of Resignation
8 On a Letter of Resignation
9 Making, Fragmentation, and the End of Endurance
10 Insomnia and the (T)error of Lost Foundation in Postmodernism
11 Shared Being, Old Promises, and the Just Necessity of Affirmative Action
12 Notes on Circulation
13 Intimacy
14 Furthermores on the Aesthetic
15 Delicacy, Desire, and Dream in the Work of Peter McHugh: Towards a Sociology of Jouissance
16 The Invention of Analysis: “If This Is Sociology, I Want to Be in It”
The Works of Peter McHugh
Index