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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Social Hauntings -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the third edition -- 1 Imaginations: Acting in a World I Never Made -- 2 Theory: Thinking the Social -- 3 Societies: Living in the Twenty-First Century -- 4 History: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants -- 5 Questions: Cultivating Sociological Imaginations -- 6 Research: Critically Engaging with Empirical Truth -- 7 Trouble: Suffering Intersecting Inequalities -- 8 Vision: Creating Sociological Hope -- Conclusion: The Sociological Imagination: Twenty-One Theses -- Appendix: Epigrammatic Sociology -- Glossary -- Webliography -- Filmography: A Select Guide to Sociology and Film -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Narrative Power -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: Going Backstage -- Overture -- 1 Narratives of Suffering -- Act 1 Setting Scenes -- 2 Narrative Actions of Power -- 3 Narrative Power as a Struggle for Human Value -- Act 2 Locating Tensions -- 4 Narrative Inequalities -- 5 Narrative Digitalism -- 6 Narrative States -- 7 Narrative Wisdom -- 8 Narrative Contingencies -- Act 3 Moving On: Acts of Narrative Hope -- 9 Caring for Narrative Futures -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Ken Plummeris Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Amongst his key books are Sexual Stigma (1975), The Making of the Modern Homosexual (1981), Telling Sexual Stories (1995), Documents of Life (2001), Intimate Citizenship (2003) and Sociology: The Basics (2010). He was the founder editor of Sexualities.

Howard S. Becker is one of the foremost sociologists of the second half of the twentieth century. Although he is perhaps best known for research on deviance and his book Outsiders, this constitutes only a very small fraction of his earliest work. This interview looks at some of the continuities and cores of his work over fifty years. Becker highlights how his work maintains the same core concerns, although new interests have been added over time. At the core is a concern with "work" and "doing things together." Becker provides many concrete stories from the past and also raises issues about the nature of doing theory and research, how he writes and produces his studies, and the problems attached to the professionalization of sociology. His writing on art and culture can be seen as assuming a major position in his later work, but he does not identify with either postmodernism or cultural studies.