The Not So Outrageous Idea Of A Christian Sociology

Author : Joseph A. Scimecca
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
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Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000922110

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The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology by Joseph A. Scimecca Pdf

This book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the materialist epistemology of contemporary sociology, which provides only a limited understanding of social behavior. Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline’s development, it considers the secularization thesis and questions surrounding positivism, scientism and postmodernism, as well as engaging with the work of a range of figures including Margaret Archer, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Hans Joas, Thomas Luckmann, David Martin, and Christian Smith. A critique of modern sociology, which argues that a Christian approach provides a better explanation than contemporary paradigms of the polarization occurring today in American society, The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sociological theory, research methods and epistemology, and the sociology of religion.

Author : David A. Fraser,Anthony Campolo
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062292148

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Sociology Through the Eyes of Faith by David A. Fraser,Anthony Campolo Pdf

Colorfully written by two popular and respected sociologists, this volume shows how sociology has evolved, how it became divided from Christian faith, and how Christian sociologists can make sense of this branch of social science.

Author : Michael Leming,Raymond De Vries,Brendan Furnish
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725226760

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The Sociological Perspective by Michael Leming,Raymond De Vries,Brendan Furnish Pdf

Sociology and Christianity? Attempting to bring sociology and Christianity together is like trying to mix oil and water. Christians seem to have as little regard for sociology as sociologists generally have for Christianity. However, in the middle of this conflict there is a group bold enough to call themselves "Christian sociologists"; they are not willing to be stereotyped but are seriously committed to both realms. This collection of essays covers topics that are typically addressed in introductory sociology courses. Written from a Christian point of view, these essays are also geared for a wide range of readers from undergraduates to professional sociologists who bring faith commitments to the sociological task. The editors' goal is to provide an understanding of societal forces that is informed by a Christian conscience. Toward that end, certain recurring themes are found in this book: the need for informed Christian social action, the conflict between the individual and the community, the conflict between freedom and determinism, and the significance of social sin.

Author : Ryan McVeigh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003802693

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The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory by Ryan McVeigh Pdf

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on, engage with, and build from topics related to cognition, placing their work in contact with research today to critically determine areas of relevance, refutation, or revision. Showing how understandings of mind, brain, and body grounded the production of early sociological thought, the book draws attention to the foundational role theories of cognition played in the emergence of sociology as a distinct field of study. With chapters on Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead, The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory constitutes a novel and timely engagement with canonical social theory, extending its application to contemporary social life. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and psychology with interests in classical social theory, cognition, embodiment, and sociality.

Author : John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : NYPL:33433081993887

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Christian Sociology by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg Pdf

Author : John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385421349

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Christian Sociology by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Craig Browne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003823162

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Social Theory and the Political Imaginary by Craig Browne Pdf

Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique and History is an innovative work of synthesis, critique, and analysis. It presages a social theory perspective that recognises the constitutive significance of the political imaginary in modernity. Social theory’s current dilemmas are explored through a series of interlinked asssessments of some of its recent substantial strands, specifically, Luc Boltanski’s pragmatism and the wider ‘practical turn’, the perspectives of multiple modernities and global modernity, the outlook of social and political imaginaries, and critical social theory. The political imaginary’s reconfigurations are evident in the tensions of global modernity and original social theory interpretations are advanced of landmark instances of twenty-first century social contestation: the Hong Kong protests conditioned by threats to civil freedoms and a lack of self-determination, the radical democratic practices of anti-austerity movements contesting capitalist globalisation’s injustices, and the inverted cosmopolitanism of the 2005 French Riots challenging the oppression and inequalities experienced by immigrant communities and marginalised youth. These incisive applications of social theory and complementary conceptual innovations illuminate the vicissitudes of social struggles, political forms, and theoretical perspectives. Similarly, reflection on the political imaginary is found to enable a necessary rethinking of the interrelationship of practice, critique and history.

Author : D.V. Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040017203

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Revisiting Social Theory by D.V. Kumar Pdf

This book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of ‘good’ social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and North-East Indian society, it considers whether new and more relevant theoretical questions need to be asked. It will therefore appeal to scholars of social theory and political sociology with interests in new approaches to social theory and the development of local or ‘indigenous’ social thought.

Author : Carmelo Lombardo,Lorenzo Sabetta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000932362

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Against the Background of Social Reality by Carmelo Lombardo,Lorenzo Sabetta Pdf

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones. Concerned with the structures of cultural invisibility, unconscious rules of irrelevance, automatic frames of meaning, and collective attention patterns, it brings together scholarship spanning sociology, anthropology, and social psychology, to cover various aspects of humdrum, unglamorous, nondescript, nothing-to-write-at-home-about social phenomena, developing the key assumptions, underpinnings, and implications of this field of study. As comprehensive analysis of unremarked features of our social existence, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and the sociology of everyday life.

Author : Tonino Griffero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003836124

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Being a Lived Body by Tonino Griffero Pdf

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us, Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will, therefore, appeal to scholars of philosophy, social theory, and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment.

Author : Besnik Pula
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040021590

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Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula Pdf

In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change. This shift has enriched the field but also led to a deadlock regarding the meaning and status of subjective knowledge. Cultural interpretivists struggle to incorporate subjective experience and the body into their understanding of social reality. In the early twentieth century, philosopher Alfred Schutz grappled with this very issue. Drawing on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Max Weber’s historical sociology, Schutz pioneered the interpretive analysis of social life from an embodied perspective. However, the recent interpretivist turn, influenced by linguistic philosophies, discourse theory, and poststructuralism, has overlooked the insights of Schutz and other phenomenologists. This book revisits Schutz’s phenomenology and social theory, positioning them against contemporary problems in social theory and interpretive social science research. The book extends Schutz’s key concepts of relevance, symbol relations, theory of language, and lifeworld meaning structures. It outlines Schutz’s critical approach to the social distribution of knowledge and develops his nascent sociology and political economy of knowledge. This book will appeal to readers with interests in social theory, phenomenology, and the methods of interpretive social science, including historical sociology, cultural sociology, science and technology studies, political economy, and international relations.

Author : Russell Heddendorf,Matthew Vos
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761849025

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Hidden Threads by Russell Heddendorf,Matthew Vos Pdf

Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world. Heddendorf finds in sociological theories some 'hidden threads' - Christian principles woven into the fabric of society. Early Christian thought was radical in its approach to social life. Jesus provided a different concept of the person, and encouraged his followers to act upon this new understanding. Thus, in the early centuries after Christ, Christian social thought was a dynamic, positive, social force, but today the situation differs. Many Christians readily accept current interpretations of problems as valid. Consequently, in response to these modern explanations, Christians develop a form of secularized thought which supports popular solutions and fails to critically engage with the real issues of the day. Hidden Threads is an examination and Christian critique of sociological theory, demonstrating appreciation for the richness of social life and holding in tension those theories that attempt to explain it.

Author : J. H. W. Stuokenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1330000366

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Christian Sociology by J. H. W. Stuokenberg Pdf

Excerpt from Christian Sociology No attempt is here made to treat the subject of Christian Sociology exhaustively. It is rather the author's aim to present it clearly, to urge its claims to careful study, to show its practical bearings, and to call on Christian scholars to aid in its further development. The field of thought here entered is rich but unexplored; and, perhaps, little more can now be done than to call attention to the wealth which the Christian thinker may appropriate. Instead of claiming to have perfected the system, the author rather regards the treatment as tentative, and is satisfied with the modest claim of giving elements, hints, principles, outlines, suggestive thoughts, and guide-boards for future explorers. Whoever comprehends this subject will appreciate its freshness, and will realize that there is in it a creative energy calculated to inspire the mind with new thought and the heart with new emotions. But he will also appreciate the difficulty in the treatment, since in the definition and arrangement no help can be gained from other books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Peden Bell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102152834X

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Christian Sociology by John Peden Bell Pdf

John Peden Bell's Christian Sociology is a groundbreaking work of social philosophy that draws on the principles of Christianity to provide a new understanding of society and human nature. Divided into two parts, this book examines the fundamental values of Christian social theory and applies them to a range of contemporary issues, from poverty and inequality to racism and war. A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and the role of religion in society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joseph A. Scimecca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429885303

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Christianity and Sociological Theory by Joseph A. Scimecca Pdf

This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective, tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century, which, when combined with their emphasis on rationality, led to the Enlightenment "science of man"—an emphasis that eventually resulted in sociology, which combined empiricism and a Christian moral philosophy. With chapters focusing on the Scholastics, the Enlightenment, the rise of sociology in France, Germany, and the United States, and the legacy of Positivism, Christianity and Sociological Theory shows how the emphasis on moral philosophy was eventually lost as sociology rejected Christian underpinnings, resulting in what can only be described as an extremely limited sociology. A rigorous exploration of the trajectory of the discipline from its Christian origins, this volume reveals the potential that exists for sociology in an era of postmodern thought to reclaim its promise through a re-introduction of Christianity.