The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes

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Original, authoritative and wide-ranging contemporary work on Everett Hughes

The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes is a comprehensive and updated critical discussion of Hughes’s contribution to sociology and his current legacy in the social sciences. A global team of scholars discusses issues such as the international circulation of Hughes’s work, his intellectual biography, his impact on current ethnographic research practices and the use in current research of such Hughesian concepts as master status, dirty work and bastard institutions. This companion is a useful reference for students of classical sociology, practitioners of ethnographic research and scholars of sociology in the Chicagoan tradition.

List of Illustrations; Foreword Everett C. Hughes, Great Teacher - Howard S. Becker; Introduction Insight through Craftsmanship: The Sociological Legacy of Everett Hughes - Rick Helmes-Hayes and Marco Santoro; Chapter One Everett Hughes and the Chicago Tradition - Jean-Michel Chapoulie; Chapter Two Studying “Going Concerns”: Everett C. Hughes on Method - Rick Helmes-Hayes; Chapter Three The Natural History of Everett Cherrington Hughes: A Master of Fieldwork - Philippe Vienne; Chapter Four Everett C. Hughes: A Key Figure of the Canadian Chicago School Diaspora - Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden; Chapter Five Everett Hughes: Notes from an Apprentice - Douglas Harper; Chapter Six An American in Frankfurt: Everett C. Hughes’s Unpublished Book on Germans after the End of the Nazi Regime - Christian Fleck; Chapter Seven The Origins and Evolution of Everett Hughes’s Concept: ‘Master Status’ - Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott and Deborah K. van den Hoonard; Chapter Eight Discovering the Secret of Excellence: Everett Hughes as a Source of Inspiration in Researching Creative Careers - Izabela Wagner; Chapter Nine Everett Hughes on Race: Wedded to an Antiquated Paradigm - Neil McLaughlin and Stephen Steinberg; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783085958
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes
ANTHEM COMPANIONS TO SOCIOLOGY
Anthem Companions to Sociology offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the past two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological traditions and will provide students and scholars with an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.
Series Editor
Bryan S. Turner—City University of New York, USA; Australian Catholic University, Australia; and University of Potsdam, Germany
Forthcoming titles in this series include:
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt
The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte
The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim
The Anthem Companion to Robert Park
The Anthem Companion to Phillip Rieff
The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde
The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch
The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen
The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes
Edited by Rick Helmes-Hayes
and
Marco Santoro
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Names: Helmes-Hayes, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1951– editor. | Santoro, Marco, 1964– editor.
Title: The Anthem companion to Everett Hughes / editors, Rick Helmes-Hayes (University of Waterloo, Canada), Marco Santoro (Bologna University, Italy).
Description: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2016. | Series: Anthem companions to sociology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043561 | ISBN 9780857281784 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983. | Sociology – United States.
Classification: LCC HM479.H845 A57 2016 | DDC 301–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043561

ISBN-13: 978-0-85728-178-4 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 0-85728-178-X (Hbk)

This title is also available as an e-book.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword Everett C. Hughes, Great Teacher
Howard S. Becker
Introduction
Insight through Craftsmanship: The Sociological Legacy of Everett Hughes Rick Helmes-Hayes and Marco Santoro
Chapter One
Everett Hughes and the Chicago Tradition Jean-Michel Chapoulie
Chapter Two
Studying “Going Concerns”: Everett C. Hughes on Method Rick Helmes-Hayes
Chapter Three
The Natural History of Everett Cherrington Hughes: A Master of Fieldwork Philippe Vienne
Chapter Four
Everett C. Hughes: A Key Figure of the Canadian Chicago School Diaspora Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden
Chapter Five
Everett Hughes: Notes from an Apprentice Douglas Harper
Chapter Six
An American in Frankfurt: Everett C. Hughes’s Unpublished Book on Germans after the End of the Nazi Regime Christian Fleck
Chapter Seven
The Origins and Evolution of Everett Hughes’s Concept: ‘Master Status’ Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott and Deborah K. van den Hoonard
Chapter Eight
Discovering the Secret of Excellence: Everett Hughes as a Source of Inspiration in Researching Creative Careers Izabela Wagner
Chapter Nine
Everett Hughes on Race: Wedded to an Antiquated Paradigm Neil McLaughlin and Stephen Steinberg
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Illustrations
Figures
0.1 Total references to Everett Hughes, and to three selected books authored or co-authored by him, in ISI Web of Science, 1985–2014
0.2 References to The Sociological Eye in ISI Web of Science and Scopus, 1971–2014
0.3 References to Men and Their Work in ISI Web of Science and Scopus, 1971–2014
5.1 Everett Hughes in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 1982
Tables
0.1 References to Everett Hughes in ISI Web of Science, 1985 to present, top five countries
0.2 References to Everett Hughes in ISI Web of Science, 1985 to present, by research areas
0.3 References to Everett Hughes in ISI Web of Science, 1985 to present, by source
0.4 Properties of texts citing The Sociological Eye or Men and Their Work according to Scopus, 1971 to present
Foreword
EVERETT C. HUGHES, GREAT TEACHER
Howard S. Becker
Everett Hughes, a great sociologist and a great teacher, may not be as unappreciated as the editors of this book suspect. His work continues to reverberate as new generations discover it for themselves. Equally important, more and more people discover, one way or another, that he didn’t just inspire generations of later-to-become-prominent sociologists. He did better than that. He taught us ‘How to Do It’, just as his teacher Robert E. Park had taught an earlier generation (Hughes was one of them) how to do it. I always imagined, when I sat in Hughes’s seminar, that he was reproducing, in his own style, the rambling, reflective, worldly, elegant style of thought and of imparting ideas that had characterized Park’s teaching.
As fine a sociologist as Hughes was (and there has never been a better practitioner of our trade), he was even better as a teacher. I think that many people who sat through his classes would disagree with me. Many colleagues of mine in graduate school found his classes disagreeable: rambling, without a clear point, even tedious. The first class I took when I entered the University of Chicago Sociology Department in the fall of 1946 was his class in how to do fieldwork, taken by all the incoming students in sociology, anthropology and human development. He assigned us, in pairs, to Chicago census tracts (a small area of one or two Chicago blocks) and gave us assignments to do: collect genealogies from two or three people (a bow to the anthropologists, I suppose), observe for an hour or two in a public place, attend a group meeting of some kind and interview a number of people who lived in the area about whatever he (Hughes) happened to be interested in that quarter. And write down all this ‘information’ we collected and turn it in to him each class period – which we all dutifully did.
He didn’t talk about that work in class. Instead he talked about any damn thing that came into his head, rambling in a contented way over things whose relevance to fieldwork wasn’t clear. At least, it seemed that way to us. We were bewildered. I noticed that a number of much older students – typically guys who had been in the army and were now in graduate school as a result of the G.I. Bill of Rights – would sometimes show up to listen to these monologues with great interest. I finally got my nerve up one day and asked David Solomon, one of the several Canadians who had come to Chicago to study with Hughes and a veteran of the war, what he was doing there. He wanted to know what I meant, and I said that he must know far more than what would be taught in an introductory class. He looked at me with real pity, and said, as best I can remember, ‘I can’t explain it to you now, but one of these days you’ll understand that these lectures are pure sociological gold.’
And they were. You had to be a little more sophisticated than we were then to appreciate Hughes’s way of taking a walk around a topic, noting some features you would otherwise have ignored, comparing it to other things happening in places that didn’t seem to have much in common with our census tracts and then concluding with a general remark that tied it all together. Was that sociology?
These explorations were a far cry from the polished, logical analyses so elegantly enunciated by his fellow faculty member Herbert Blumer, who explicated the complex, subtle and hard-for-us-to-grasp social psychology of one of his teachers, the philosopher George Herbert Mead. Many students thought that was the Real Thing. Nor did these explorations have the ostentatious erudition of Louis Wirth, who occasionally entertained himself by translating obscure passages from Georg Simmel instead of lecturing.
But when it was time to write a master’s thesis, some of us chose to study situations of work and were directed to see Hughes on the fifth floor of the Social Science Building (it had been Robert E. Park’s office, but none of us knew that then). And whatever kind of work you had chosen to study – and especially if, like me, you had chosen something less ‘noble’ than medicine or law – he would encourage you to get started doing some p