ISBN:
9781793625984
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (315 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thorpe, Charles Sociology in post-normal times
DDC:
301.09
Keywords:
Sociology
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Electronic books
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Soziologie
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Krise
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Gesellschaft
Abstract:
The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Hypernormalization in Post-Normal Times -- The Decline of American Imperialism and the End of Normal -- The Spectacle of Normalcy -- Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Disposability -- The Post-Normal Condition -- Normal and Post-Normal Sociology -- The University Caught in the Contradiction between Nation-State and Global Economy -- Notes -- Chapter 2: From the Pathology of Normalcy to the Normalcy of Pathology -- Risk and Dread -- Wilding in Post-Normal and Post-National Capitalism -- The Normalcy of Pathology -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Reason of State in a Global Age -- Science, Market, State -- "Science as a Vocation" and the Paradoxes of Capitalist Rationalization -- The Self-Negation of Autonomous Science -- War Is a Force That Gives Sociologists Meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Sociological Moment -- Normalcy and Normal Sociology -- "Society" as Commodity Fetishism and Nationalism -- Sociology as Technocratic Utopianism -- The Manufacture of Normalcy and Its Material Foundations -- The End of Sociology's "Society" -- MEDIATION AND ITS CRISIS -- Mediation through Fragmentation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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