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Combining the liberal and useful arts: Sociological skills in the global economy
Tác giả
Finkelstein M.S.
Năm xuất bản
1994
Source title
The American Sociologist
Số trích dẫn
6
DOI
10.1007/BF02692580
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Tóm tắt
The discipline of sociology remains vulnerable in an environment of economic uncertainty and global change. Constraints on higher education are likely to increase and recurrent pressures on traditional liberal arts programs will continue unabated. An older, more diverse, cost-conscious and career-minded student population will increasingly insist on clearer pathways to difficult and bewildering labor markets. But sociology's weakness as a liberal art may be overcome by combining it with a more applied and practical orientation. The very forces that threaten the discipline's institutional existence make it profoundly relevant and valuable in an age of social transformation. Based on a familiar Millsian conception of the sociological imagination, this article attempts to combine sociology's liberal tradition with its role as a "useful art," honed into the specific features of workplace change and the employment setting. It does so by suggesting five categories of emerging skills in the global economy and ways that sociology has a far reaching claim to their practice and development. The categories are: 1) the skills of knowledge workers; 2) skills in the learning organization; 3) skills in the technological context; 4) skills in the diverse and divided workplace; 5) change-making skills. The article concludes by urging those in the discipline to make sociology more of a useful art that has practical application in a changing world. © 1995 Springer.
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Springer-Verlag
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