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9780761814658

Utopia on Wheels Blundering Down the Road to Reality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761814658

  • ISBN10:

    0761814655

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-08
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

Utopia on Wheels is a readable, interesting, and accessible introduction to contemporary social issues and theories. Through an exploration of the Green Tortoise, a San Francisco travel company that is dedicated to counter-culture adventures, McGettigan uses three separate journeys as a means to examine the relationship between self and society. In this manner, he provides an entry-point for mass audiences to consider important sociological issues including the nature of social power, the problem of social order, and the ways in which individuals may produce change in a global society.

Author Biography

Timothy McGettigan is currently an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Wake Forest University.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
Making Rules to Break
1(24)
On the Road to Dystopia
25(34)
Redefining the Adventure
59(22)
Blinded by Theory
81(14)
Enter the Simulacra
95(20)
Power, Truth, and ``Good Science''
115(12)
Bibliography 127(10)
Index 137

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