| Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination Contributor(s): Phillips, Bernard S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594513732 ISBN-13: 9781594513732 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $247.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Political Science | Terrorism - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 303.625 |
| LCCN: 2007016063 |
| Series: Advancing the Sociological Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.39" W x 9.28" (0.93 lbs) 222 pages |