Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology (Routledge Revivals)

Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136875719

This title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q. Hirst: the first based on Claude Bernard’s theory of scientific knowledge, and the second concerning Emile Durkheim’s attempt to provide a philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology in The Rules of Sociological Method. The author’s primary concern is to answer the question: is Durkheim’s theory of knowledge logically consistent and philosophically viable? His principal conclusion is that the epistemology developed in the Rules is an impossible one and that its inherent contradictions are proof that sociology as it is commonly understood can never be a scientific discipline.

On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (Routledge Revivals)

On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Mike Gane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136875573

This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. Mike Gane argues that to understand The Rules it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society in which the book was written. He explores the cultural and philosophical debates which raged in France during the period when Durkheim prepared the book and establishes the real and unsuspected complexity of Durkheim's position: its formal complexity, its epistemological complexity, and its historical complexity.

Marxism and Historical Writing (Routledge Revivals)

Marxism and Historical Writing (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Paul Hirst
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136999078

In this reissued collection of essays, first published in 1985, Paul Q. Hirst assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. It begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and includes chapters on G.A Cohen’s attempt to re-state the Marxist theory of history in terms compatible with analytic philosophy, on R.G. Collingwood’s theory of history, on Anderson’s work on Absolutism, on Thompson’s Poverty of Theory, and on the contemporary politics of democratic socialism.

Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals)

Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals)
Author: William Outhwaite
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136830766

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, Dr Outhwaite argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts. A realistic philosophy of science therefore acts as his reference point for the dialectical presentation of alternative accounts.

Religious Transformation in Western Society (Routledge Revivals)

Religious Transformation in Western Society (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Harvie Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136821392

Originally published in 1992, this remarkable book challenges many of the assumptions governing the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Culture by arguing that Western religion is neither science nor morality - it is the promise of happiness. Learned and incisive, it will be essential reading for students of religion, culture and anyone interested in the character of Modernity.

Childhood

Childhood
Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 1996
Genre: Children
ISBN: 0415120144

In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the presentthe mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to itthe 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
Author: Ryan McVeigh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1003802699

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.

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Total Pages: 408
Release: 1975
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