ISBN:
9783030483708
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 273 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kasper, Debbie Beyond the knowledge crisis
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Elias, Norbert
;
Environmental sociology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Beyond the Knowledge Crisis -- Introduction -- Why This Book -- What to Expect -- Summary of Chapters -- Note -- References -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 The Crisis of the Librarian -- Toward Specialization: A Brief History -- Fragmentation and the Knowledge Crisis Today -- Re-uniting Knowledge -- Seeking Socio-Environmental Approaches to Socio-Environmental Problems -- Thresholds and Trajectories -- Turning Things Around -- The Need for a Synthesis of Knowledge -- References -- 2 Moving Toward Synthesis -- Wanted: Synthesist -- A Matter of Life and Matter -- Looking to Smaller Parts -- Parts, Wholes, and Relational Patterns -- A Two-Way Street -- In the Name of Progress -- The Institute of Human Relations -- The Department of Social Relations -- The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences -- Recognizing Possibilities, Realizing Potential -- References -- 3 A Science of Human Social Life? Present State, Future Prospects -- Where Do the Social Sciences Stand Today? -- Defining Social Science -- Perceptions of Social Science -- Aspiring to Relevance -- What Happened to Sociology? -- What Is Sociology? -- What Is Sociology for? -- We Need Sociology More Than Ever -- Re-imagining the Social Sciences -- Relational Processes -- A Distinct, but Inseparable, Level of Phenomena -- Increasing Complexity -- Re-structuring the Social Sciences -- References -- 4 Mapping the Territory -- Putting People on the Map -- Above and Outside of Nature -- Linking Humans and Nature -- Satellite View -- Laying Down the Laws -- What We Get -- Upgraded Core Concepts -- Mental Picture as Map -- References -- 5 The Medium of Human Social Life -- Biophysical Conditions -- Stuff We Can't See -- Stuff We Don't See -- Levels of Phenomena as Mental Shelving -- A Spectrum of Biophysical Conditions.
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