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| Author | : Randall Collins |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2013-10-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1483261050 |
Sociology Since Midcentury: Essays in Theory Cumulation is a collection of essays dealing with major intellectual developments in sociology since the mid-twentieth century. Topics covered include a macrohistorical theory of geopolitics, intended somewhat as an alternative to the Wallerstein economic theory of world-systems; a microtheory that provides a basis for linking up to and reconstructing macrosociological theories; structuralism, ritual violence, and solidarity; and the symbolic economy of culture. Comprised of 20 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the major historical and comparative sociologies, the traditions of Karl Marx and Max Weber with their subsequent transformations. The next section is devoted to structuralism and conflict that includes a discussion on a theory of violence and Claude Lévi-Strauss's structural history. Subsequent chapters explore the sociology of education and consider class, codes, and control; cultural capitalism and symbolic violence; schooling in capitalist America; breakthroughs in microsociology; and the microfoundations of macrosociology. Erving Goffman's scholarly methods and the theoretical traditions to which he contributes are also examined. This monograph will be of interest to sociologists.
| Author | : Randall Collins |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1986-02-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521314268 |
A new interpretation of Weberian sociology, showing its relevance to current world isues.
| Author | : Randall Collins |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 850 |
| Release | : 2009-07-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674967569 |
Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of society at large and the purely contingent local construction of meanings. Instead, Collins focuses on the social locations where sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual networks and their inner divisions and conflicts.
| Author | : Terence C. Halliday |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 1992-10-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780226313795 |
Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circles—these are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.
| Author | : Hendrik Vollmer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1107032148 |
Hendrik Vollmer explores how disruption triggers social change, refocusing members of a collective on matters of membership, status and coalition.
| Author | : Jennifer L. Geddes |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0810132915 |
Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpretability is not only wrong, it also misconstrues a central concern of his work. Kafka was not trying to avoid or prevent interpretation; rather, his works are centrally concerned with it. Geddes explores the interpretation that takes place within, and in response to, Kafka's writings, and pairs Kafka's works with readings of Sigmund Freud, Pierre Bourdieu, Tzvetan Todorov, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. She argues that Kafka explores interpretation as a mode of power and violence, but also as a mode of engagement with the world and others. Kafka, she argues, challenges us to rethink the ways we read texts, engage others, and navigate the world through our interpretations of them.
| Author | : Michael Hviid Jacobsen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2017-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137581840 |
This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective and on the discipline of sociology as such. It presents analyses of interactionist theorists from Georg Simmel through to Herbert Bulmer and Erving Goffman and onto the more recent contributions of Arlie R. Hochschild and Gary Alan Fine. Through an engagement with the latest scholarship this work shows that in a discipline often focused on macrosocial developments and large-scale structures, the interactionist perspective which privileges the study of human interaction has continued relevance. The broad scope of this book will make it an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sociology, social theory, cultural studies, media studies, social psychology, criminology and anthropology.
| Author | : Jens Bartelson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1995-04-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521478885 |
The concept of sovereignty is central to international relations theory and theories of state formation, and provides the foundation of the conventional separation of modern politics into domestic and international spheres. In this book Jens Bartelson provides a critical analysis and conceptual history of sovereignty, dealing with this separation as reflected in philosophical and political texts during three periods: the Renaissance, the Classical Age, and Modernity. He argues that the concept of sovereignty and its place within political discourse are conditioned by philosophical and historiographical discontinuities between the periods, and that sovereignty should be regarded as a concept contingent upon, rather than fundamental to, political science and its history.
| Author | : Heather Love |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 022676110X |
Introduction : beginning with Stigma -- The Stigma archive -- Just watching -- A sociological periplum -- Doing being deviant -- Afterword : the politics of stigma.
| Author | : Bennett M. Berger |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2024-07-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520414357 |
The result of thirty-five years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. An Essay on Culture culminates in a call for an empirical research program focused on the relation between symbolic choices and social locations, rather than on interpretive accounts of the meanings of texts or performances. Among his unusual insights are a defense of reductionism, sympathetic accounts of peer pressure and special interests, an attempt to restore some dignity to the word “ideology,” and a fresh perspective on conspiracy theory. Scholars and students of culture will find here stunning discussions and theoretical insights on ideological work, morality and culture, and on the relations between social structure and cultural structure. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
