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Author : José Maurício C. S. Domingues
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063483618
Author : J. Domingues
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230376342
The main theme of this book is collective subjectivity, analysed especially in connection with the work of Marx, Parsons, Giddens and Habermas, but also addressing the manifold tendencies of sociological theory, from its inception to the present. The book supports the idea that there is a conceptual shortcoming in the most relevant contemporary research programs in sociological theory, despite some recent efforts to re-develop concepts of collective actor, class or social movement. After the fragmentation of the sixties a number of synthetical approaches emerged. Some writers, such as Touraine, Laclau and Mouffe, Olson, Coleman, Hindess, Mouzelis and Eder have proposed some versions of concepts of collective subjectivity, focusing on collective actors, classes, genders, social movements, organisations and collective utilitarian action. But they do not, in terms of general conceptual construction, go further than Parsons and Marx: they often fail to match their original formulations. The concept of collective subjectivity is introduced to bring together these diverse approaches, which are synthesised and receive a more general definition. Moreover, this new concept is directly linked to those contemporary syntheses.
Author : José Maurício Domingues
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 0312129769
The main theme of this book is collective subjectivity, analysed especially in connection with the work of Marx, Parsons, Giddens and Habermas, but also addressing the manifold tendencies of sociological theory, from its inception to the present. After the fragmentation of the 1960s a number of synthetical approaches emerged. The book supports the idea that there is a conceptual shortcoming in the most relevant contemporary research programmes in sociological theory, despite some recent efforts to redevelop concepts of collective actor, class or social movement.
Author : Anthony Giddens,Fred Reinhard Dallmayr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520049640
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1669 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317807056
This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.
Author : J. Domingues
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230597556
The axis of this book is the articulation between the concept of collective subjectivity with the themes of social evolution and social creativity on the one hand, plus contemporary modernity and social change on the other. Drawing on theoretical ideas on reflexivity, creativity and history, it proposes a discussion of fundamental aspects of contemporary society, dealing with global modernity, economic sociology and social policy, via concrete discussions about Brazil and Britain.
Author : John Holmwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017541215
In Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the idea of general Theory John Holmwood provides a fresh and approachable account of Parson's work, reflecting the recent revival of interest in this important theorist, Starting with a brief.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015079880152
Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Author : Craig Browne
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783085026
In Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity Craig Browne investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. Comparing Habermas’s and Giddens’s conceptions of the constitution of society, interpretations of the social-structural impediments to subjects’ autonomy and attempts to delineate potentials for progressive social change within contemporary society, Browne draws on his own work, which has extended aspects of the social theorists’ approach to modernity. Despite the criticisms developed over the course of the book, Habermas and Giddens are found to be two of the most important theorists of democratization and social democracy, the dynamics of capitalist modernity and their paradoxes, social practices and reflexivity, and the foundations of social theory in the problem of the relationship of social action and social structure.
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317808671
This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.
Author : Sandro Segre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317160519
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellectual movements within the discipline, as well as the work of individual scholars. The author provides not only a rigorous exposition of each theory, but also an examination of the scholarly reception of the approach in question, considering both critical responses and defences in order to reach a balanced evaluation. Chapters cover the following theorists and perspectives: ¢ Alexander ¢ Bourdieu ¢ Ethnomethodology ¢ Exchange Theory ¢ Foucault ¢ Giddens ¢ Goffman ¢ Habermas ¢ Luhmann ¢ Merton ¢ Network and Social Capital Theory ¢ Parsons ¢ Rational Choice Theory ¢ Schutz and Phenomenalism ¢ Structuralism ¢ Symbolic Interactionism An accessible and informative treatment of the central approaches in sociology over the course of the last century, this volume marks a significant contribution to sociological theory and constitutes an essential addition to library collections in the areas of the history of sociology and contemporary social theory.
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317808824
This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037036188
Author : John Kenneth Rhoads
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271072470
Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Merton, Parsons, and Schutz. Instead of being just another history, or another classification of theories, Rhoads's four-part model allows him to focus attention on issues that remain at the core of sociological theory today. First, Rhoads analyzes the controversy over positivism as the proper methodological model for the study of human society. Is there one science, of which sociology is a branch, or do the peculiarities of sociology's subject matter require a modification of the scientific method borrowed from the natural sciences? Rhoads next considers the relationship of individuals to society and its structures. Does society have a mode of existence distinct from its members, or is it merely an abstraction derived from the characteristics of individuals? Third, a discussion of social order raises the question of whether social order is the consequence of rules and their underlying moral values, or the product of continuous construction based on self-interest. Finally, the relative importance of consensus and conflict in social relationships is addressed. Is society better understood as a community united by beliefs, values, and rules, or is the social dynamic of continual conflict over beliefs, values, and rules more fundamental? In coming to grips with these issues, the author in some instances takes sides and in others arrives at a synthesis of diverse perspectives. In the final chapter he points to the limitations on the possibility of rational action that come to light in the clashes over these basic issues.
Author : E. C. Cuff,Wes W. Sharrock,D. W. Francis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 9780415159791
This fourth edition has been wholly rewritten and restructured. While retaining its wealth of information about the founding figures of sociology it also includes much new material on contemporary social theory and particularly the challenge to sociology posed by the rise of post-structuralism with its questioning of the whole enlightenment project. New features include: * a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century * information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognised, e.g. Nietszche, Saussure, Simmel * key debates placed in historical and philosophical context * connections drawn between post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault and Derrida and the founding figures of sociology: Marx, Weber and Durkheim * easy to read format * four wholly new chapters tracing developments in social theory from structuralism to postmodernism.