This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of...
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped consid...
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of...
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped consid...
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the rationalistic revolution' of the golden age' of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the collectivist alternative': the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by...
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the organization of modernity', in relation to...
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the 'organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the 'rationalistic revolution' of the 'golden age' of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the 'collectivist alternative': the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by...
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the 'organization of modernity', in relation t...
