The Sociology of Postmarxism

ISBN-13: 9780367866068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Richard Howson

Opis

Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship to ‘the social’, A Sociology of Postmarxism develops key postmarxist arguments in an engaging and sociologically applicable way. Indeed, through a threefold method of analysis, Ho

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Table of Contents

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Chapter One: Introduction

Why The Social?

Why Postmarxism?

Why Postmarxism and Social capital

Chapter Two: From the Social to the Political

Introduction

The Social in Historical Materialism

Setting out a Post- Terrain

Sociology and The Social in Postmarxism

Counter-Positions of The Social

Chapter Three: Classical Approaches to The Social

Introduction

The Sociological project and the Emergence of Positivism

Karl Marx: Logic to Contradiction to Mediation

Emile Durkheim: Moral Positivism and Mediation

Max Weber: From Rationality to Irrationality as Social Mediation

Chapter Four: Establishing a Basis for Postmarxism

Introduction

The New Priority

The Social as ‘Sedimentation’ and The Political as ‘Reactivation’

Chapter Five: From Antagonism to Equivalence

Introduction

Antagonism as the Limit of Social Objectivity

"You Can Only Free Somethings …": Hegemony and The Political

Hegemony and the Constitution of Equivalence

Chapter Six: Finding The Political in Social Capital

Introduction

What is Social Capital?

Forms of Social Capital

Social Capital and The Political

Chapter Seven: Desert - Migration as Social Dislocation

Introduction

Quantity and Composition of Global Migration

Migration and (Post)Industrialisation

Foundational Approaches to Migration

Definitional Problematics

Causation Theories

Continuation Theories

Postmarxism and Migration

Chapter Eight: Aspiration – Hegemonic Masculinity as Emptiness

Introduction

Gender Antagonism in the Modernity-Postmodernity Tens

O autorze

Richard Howson is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Wollongong