Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780815351412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

UK) Marcus (University of Cambridge Morgan

Opis

This book suggests that sociology’s real value can only be disclosed by replacing its image as a discipline aimed towards disinterested social enlightenment with an image of itself as a practice both dependent upon, and at its best self-consciously aimed towards, human ends and imperatives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Exhuming Humanism  2. The Phoenix of Humanism  3. A Humanistic Conception of Knowledge and Its Political Implications  4. Beginning with Ends: From Technocratic to Transformative Knowledge  5. The Poverty of Moral Philosophy and the Strength of Sociological ‘Ethics’  6. The Responsibility for Sociological Hope  7. The Value of a Humanistic Sociology

O autorze

Marcus Morgan is a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is the author, with Patrick Baert, of Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals.