16. Finding the Future in Pragmatist Thought: imagination, teleologies, and public deliberation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction
4. 1. Pragmatist Sociology histories and possibilities 1
5. PART I. Inquiry
6. 2. What Sociologists Should Get Out of Pragmatism 31
7. 3. Self-Reflection and Social Responsibility in Research" lessons from early pragmatist historical investigations 60
8. 4. Problem Situation Misassessment and the Financial Crisis 89
9. 5. Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Sociology 122
10. 6. Disambiguating Dewey; or Why Pragmatist Action Theory Neither Needs Nor Asks Paradigmatic Privilege 143
11. PART II. Agency
12. 7. Problem-Solving in Action: a Peirceian account 169
13. 8. Projective and Responsive Creativity Among On-Demand Workers 186
14. 9. Words Versus Actions in the Network Behavior of Low-Income African Americans 210
15. 10. Scientific Innovation as Environed Social Learning 231
16. 11. Why Do Biologists and Chemists Do Safety Differently? the reproduction of cultural variation through pragmatic regulation 256
17. PART III. Democracy
18. 12. Accidental Discovery and the Pragmatist Theory of Action: The emergence of a boston police and black ministers partnership 305
19. 13. Pragmatist Comparative-Historical Sociology 336
20. 14. American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro 364
21. 15. The Public Arena a pragmatist concept of the public sphere 377
22. 16. Finding the Future in Pragmatist Thought: imagination, teleologies, and public deliberation 406
23. INDEX 433