Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong?: Diagnosis and Remedies

ISBN-13: 9780415127202 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 236 str.

Nicos P. Mouzelis;Mouzelis Nicos

Opis

Theorising in the social sciences today is in disarray. A disarray marked by the relative disconnection between theory and empirical research, the subordination of sociological to philosophical theorising, the abolition of boundaries between social science disciplines and subdisciplines and the conflation of their internal logics.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION 1 Theory as tool and theory as end-product 2 The rise and fall of modem sociological theory 3 Conceptual pragmatism Part I Diagnosis 1 IMPASSES OF MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING: OVERREACTION TO PARSONS 2 RATIONAL-CHOICE THEORIES: FROM MICRO FOUNDATIONS TO REDUCTIONISM 3 POST-STRUCTURALISM: THE DEMISE OF BOUNDARIES Part II Tentative Remedies 4 INSTITUTIONAL AND FIGURATIONAL STRUCTURES: PARSONS AND ELIAS 5 ON THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND FIGURATIONAL STRUCTURES: BRINGING PARSONIAN AND MARXIST SOCIOLOGIES CLOSER TOGETHER 6 THE ‘PARTICIPANT-SOCIAL WHOLE’ ISSUE: PARSONS, BOURDIEU, GIDDENS 7 SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION: A SOCIOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF FUNCTIONALISM CONCLUSION Appendix to the Conclusion: tentative guidelines

O autorze

Nicos Mouzelis is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.