Author(s): Berger, Bennett M.
Edition: with a new introduction by the author
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Oxon, England
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
A Note to Sociologists and Other Readers
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
The Research: Reluctant Beginnings
What This Book Is About
2. The Ranch
The Setting and the People
Access: The Ranch and I
3. Commune Children: Equalitarianism an dthe Decline of Age-Grading
Age-Grading
Communa lChildren: Mothering and Fathering
Children's Rights
Ideology and Circumstance
Adult sand the Self-Serving Character of Ideas About Children
The Problem of Schooling
4. American Pastorialism and the Commune Movement
The Pastoral Myth and the Myth of Suburbia
Communa lIdeals and the Pastoral Myth
Remedial Ideological Work
Ideological Work and Downward Social Mobilit y
5. Intimacy: Coupling, Uncoupling, Recoupling
Intimate Relations at The Ranch
Couplin gand Solidarity
Couplin gand Uncoupling at The Ranch
Suffering and Social Change: Micro and Macro
"Feeling Work" as Ideological Work: Burning Out Jealousy
Feminism
A Digression on Gender Culture
Group Structure and Expressive Candor
6. Ideological Conflict and the Microsociology of Knowledge
"Cynicism" and the Sociology of Knowledge
Intellectuals: "False Consciousness" and the Sociology of Knowledge
Ideological Work and False Consciousness
Interests, Legitimacy and the Self-Serving Character of Ideas
Meanwhile, Back at The Ranch...
7. Reproduction and Change in Culture and Sensibility
The Radical Tradition
Political and Cultural Radicalism
Mind-Blowing: The Desocialization of Sensibility
Teaching, Training, Circumstance, and Sensibility
Reflexivity and "Labeling" Theory
Appendix: Ethnographic Methods
Psychiatry and Ethnography
Ethnographic Problems and Methodological Remedies as Ideological Work
Unsolved Problems
Reflexivity in Ethnography
Bibliography
Index
