In Defence Of Sociology

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666587

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In Defence of Sociology by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary intellectual culture. In this book the author challenges such an interpretation, showing that sociology continues to hold a central position within the social sciences. Looking both to the past of sociology and the diversity of intellectual trends found in the present-day, Giddens explores many aspects of the sociological heritage. Comte, Durkheim, Parsons, Marshall, and Habermas are among the figures covered. Giddens also connects sociological work directly to current political issues and places the discipline of sociology in the context of broad questions of social and political theory. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and professionals in the fields of sociology, anthropology and political science.

Author : Phil Hutchinson,Rupert Read,Wes Sharrock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317010715

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There is No Such Thing as a Social Science by Phil Hutchinson,Rupert Read,Wes Sharrock Pdf

The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a Winchian voice, the authors examine how such contentions involve a failure to understand central themes in Winch's writings and that the issues which occupied him in his Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and later papers remain central to social studies. The volume offers a careful reading of the text in alliance with Wittgensteinian insights and alongside a focus on the nature and results of social thought and inquiry. It draws parallels with other movements in the social studies, notably ethnomethodology, to demonstrate how Winch's central claim is both more significant and more difficult to transcend than sociologists and philosophers have hitherto imagined.

Author : Jerry A. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226069463

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In Defense of Disciplines by Jerry A. Jacobs Pdf

Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research and effective teaching, Jerry Jacobs contends that the promise of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that critiques of established disciplines are often overstated and misplaced. Drawing on diverse sources of data, Jacobs offers a new theory of liberal arts disciplines such as biology, economics, and history that identifies the organizational sources of their dynamism and breadth. Illustrating his thesis with a wide range of case studies including the diffusion of ideas between fields, the creation of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, and the rise of new fields that spin off from existing ones, Jacobs turns many of the criticisms of disciplines on their heads to mount a powerful defense of the enduring value of liberal arts disciplines. This will become one of the anchors of the case against interdisciplinarity for years to come.

Author : Antony G N Flew
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349027782

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Sociology, Equality and Education by Antony G N Flew Pdf

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015000699622

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Sociology, Equality and Education by Antony Flew Pdf

Author : Antony Garrard Newton Flew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251583206

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Sociology, Equality and Education by Antony Garrard Newton Flew Pdf

Author : Hannah Cooke,Susan M. Philpin
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702037443

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Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book by Hannah Cooke,Susan M. Philpin Pdf

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.

Author : Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317557081

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Sociology of Crisis by Myrto Tsilimpounidi Pdf

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European context, crisis is seen as a threat to the stability of the region, rather than a local or national concern. Post-2008, crisis is social and political, rather than merely financial, as Western countries witness the consequences of consumption, growth and profit. In this book, Tsilimpounidi demonstrates how sociologists must develop new approaches to examining rapid shifts in the social landscape, since crisis is not merely reflected in balance sheets, but is mediated through spectacular imagery of loss, deprivation and increased vectors of marginalisation. Providing focused and valuable insight into the pressing problems of those living in Greece in relation to the wider spheres of the nation and at the level of the European Union, Sociology of Crisis takes an approach that is firmly located within a critical sociological appeal to reflexivity. A timely engagement with the problem of crisis at a macro-level and in dialogue with the everyday experiences of crisis on a micro-level, this interdisciplinary title will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, social policy, geography, urban studies and research methods (social science).

Author : Alain Caillé,Frédéric Vandenberghe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000203523

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For a New Classic Sociology by Alain Caillé,Frédéric Vandenberghe Pdf

This book examines the future of the social sciences and the reconstruction of society in contemporary times. Drawing on the lead piece For a New Classic Sociology, it calls for a new theoretical synthesis that overcomes the fragmentation, specialization and professionalization within the social sciences. The position paper and the responses by a team of world-class social theorists provide an alternative to utilitarianism and the colonization of the social sciences by rational choice models, propose a new articulation of social theory, and moral, social and political philosophy. It recommends a return to classical social theory and explores articulations between theories of reciprocity, care and recognition. A radical intervention in the study of the social sciences, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers across the social sciences, especially social theory and sociology and social anthropology. Contributions by Frank Adloff, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Francis Chateauraynaud, Raewyn Connell, François Dubet, Philip Gorski, Nathalie Heinich, Qu Jingdong, Mike Savage, Michael Singleton and Philippe Steiner.

Author : Giuseppe Caforio,Marina Nuciari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319716022

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Handbook of the Sociology of the Military by Giuseppe Caforio,Marina Nuciari Pdf

This new edition of the volume is presented on the wave of the success which had its first edition (2003). It is entirely updated to the current situation of the disciplines covered, and expanded with particular regard to the new missions, that have become the main challenge for the armed forces in these first decades of the new millennium, with new insights to technological development toward so-called cyborg warriors, new forms of leadership and changes in soldier's identity and organisational culture. It is compiled of documents coming from various researchers at universities around the world as well as military officers devoted to the sector of study. Covered in this volume is a historical excursus of studies prior to contemporary research, interpretive models and theoretical approaches developed specifically for this topic, civic-military relations including issues surrounding democratic control of the armed forces, military culture, professional training, conditions and problems of minorities in the armed forces, an examination of the structural change within the military over the years including new duties and functions following the Cold War.

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789604597

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Hegel Contra Sociology by Gillian Rose Pdf

Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant and Fichte, Hegel supplies a preemptive critique of Weber, Durkheim, and all of the sociological traditions that stem from these "neo-Kantian" thinkers, Rose argues that any attempt to preserve Marxism from a similar critique and any attempt to renew sociology cannot succeed without coming to terms with Hegel's own speculative discourse. With an analysis of Hegel's mature works in light of his early radical writings, this book represents a profound step toward enacting just such a return to the Hegelian.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811066412

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Beyond Sociology by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination. It questions accepted modernist assumptions such as the equation of society and nation-state, the dualism of individual and society and that of ontology and epistemology. Arguing that contemporary sociology suffers from what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like fire power of western sociology, it argues that sociology has to open itself to transcivilizational dialogues and planetary conversations about self, culture and society. The book also challenges scholars to go beyond a privileging of the post-traditional telos of modernist sociology and puts forward a foundational interrogation of modernist sociology. It underscores the limitations of established conventions of sociology and considering an alternative sociology based upon Confucian vision and practice of self-transformation. This collection offers a way to go beyond dominant structures of modern sociology and contemporary dominant ways of thinking about and doing sociology helping us cultivate a transdisciplinary sociology.

Author : Charles Thorpe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793625984

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Sociology in Post-Normal Times by Charles Thorpe Pdf

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's “society” is no longer viable because globalization has put an end to social reform, thus the assumptions and goals of sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity. In the face of the pandemic and climate change, Sociology in Post-Normal Times demands no less than the birth of a global humanity beyond nation states as the precondition for human survival.

Author : Christopher G. A. Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135036744

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Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals) by Christopher G. A. Bryant Pdf

This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – and four contemporary developments or revisions of them – the sociologie active of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in Socialist Poland, the work of Dahrendorf and the ‘new sociology’ of Mills and his successors. Christopher Bryant suggests that no neutral language exists in which to compare the characteristics of these different paradigms, yet highlights those features which are common to all of them. Unique in its approach and analysis of the relationship between sociology and action, this book is of value and interest to students of sociology and theory and professional sociologists.

Author : Robert Van Krieken,Daphne Habibis,Philip Smith,Brett Hutchins,Greg Martin,Karl Maton
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442562363

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Sociology by Robert Van Krieken,Daphne Habibis,Philip Smith,Brett Hutchins,Greg Martin,Karl Maton Pdf

Building upon the success of previous editions, this fully revised edition of Sociology lays the foundations for understanding sociology in Australia. The depth and breadth of the book ensures its value not only for first-year students, but for sociology majors requiring on-going reference to a range of theoretical perspectives and current debates. This fifth Australian edition continues to build on the book’s reputation for coverage, clarity and content, drawing upon the work of leading Australian sociologists as well as engaging with global social trends and sociological developments.