This volume aims to provide an historical analysis of sociology and its implications today. The author presents a number of contemporary theories, ranging from historical materialism, phenomenology, structuralism and world system theory. The book ranges from analyses of the Hegelian Apogee to Marx's Theory of Knowledge, combined with an analysis of the current condition of sociology.
This volume aims to provide an historical analysis of sociology and its implications today. The author presents a number of contemporary theories, ran...
Controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book offers historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today. The author provides detailed studies of a number of contemporary theories, ranging from historical materialism, phenomenology, structuralism and world system theory. He contends that the rightful heir of the sociological tradition is the dynamic sociology of knowledge, in particular the figuration research programme of Norbert Elias.
Controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book offers historical analysis of the profound burden of soc...
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic 'war on all your houses'. His sociology of the 'human condition' sweeps aside the contemporary focus on 'modernity' and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all,...
Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledg...
This sociological critique of the 'philosophy of praxis' looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukacs, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel, and explores the validity and implications for sociology of two of Marx's ideas which the later theorists made the centre piece of their social theory: first, that true theory is authenticated by praxis, and second, its corollary that certain major social transformations should and would in practice...
This sociological critique of the 'philosophy of praxis' looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western...
