ISBN:
9781317651000
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (192 p)
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Sociological Theory in Transition (RLE Social Theory)
DDC:
301.01
Schlagwort(e):
Sociology ; Methodology..
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Ethics..
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Criticism (Philosophy)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society. The authors explore various facets of this failure and possibilities for reconstructing sociological theories as integrated wholes capable of conveying a moral and political immediacy. They discuss the evolution of several concepts (for example, the social, structure, and self) and address the significant disputes (for example, structuralism v
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I; Introduction: Dissolution of the Classical Project; Part II Narrowing of Sociological Discourse; 1 Sociological Nemesis: Parsons and Foucault on the Therapeutic Disciplines; 2 Sociological Theory and Practical Reason: the Restriction of the Scope of Sociological Theory; 3 State, Ethics and Public Morality in American Sociological Thought; Part III Traditions in Dissolution; 4 Sociological Theory and Politics
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5 Morality, Self and Society: the Loss and Recapture of the Moral Self6 The Concept of Structure in Sociology; 7 The Dissolution of the Social?; Part IV Practice and the Reconstruction of Sociological Theory; 8 Actors and Social Relations; 9 Human Rights Theory and the Classical Sociological Tradition; 10 Hermeneutics and Axiology: the Ethical Content of Interpretation; Part V ; Epilog ; References; Index
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