ISBN:
9781000909500
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Series Statement:
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Sociology
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Social psychology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- Introduction: The Greatness of Sociology -- Introduction: The Primary Sociological Lineage -- Sociology's Point of No Return -- The Sociological Ambition -- The Eliasian Breakthrough -- Status Anxiety, Tactical Eclecticism and the Unconscious -- Further Obstacles in the Reception of Elias -- The Ubiquity of Process Theories -- The Dawning Awareness of Social Complexity -- Conclusion: Towards an Intergenerational Sociology -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Figurational-Process Sociology: Synthesis and Vocation -- 1 The Dawn of Detachment: Norbert Elias and Sociology's Two Tracks -- Introduction: Elias's Perspective as a World View -- Elias and 'The Peculiar Enigma of Society' -- Emerging Disciplinary Insights -- The Birth of the Two Tracks -- The Sociogenesis of Intransigent Opposition -- Karl Marx or Lorenz Von Stein? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Karl Marx: New Perspectives -- Introduction: Marx and Marxism -- The Sociogenesis of Marx's World View -- The Theses on Feuerbach Reconsidered -- Marx and the Institutionalisation of Sociology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Norbert Elias's Post-Philosophical Sociology: From 'Critique' to Relative Detachment -- Introduction -- The Sociological Mission -- From Philosophy to Sociology -- The Detour Via Detachment -- Restructuring or Transcending Philosophy? -- On Being 'Critical': Code Words and Modernity Blaming -- 'Critical' Inquiries in Kant and Hegel -- Critical Theory or 'Detour Via Detachment'? -- Conclusion: Secondary Involvement and the Anticipatory Motif -- Notes -- References -- 4 How has Post-Philosophical Sociology Become Possible? -- Introduction -- Sociologists and Philosophers: Who Does What? -- The Assault on Process -- Conclusion.
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