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Author | : Terry Leahy |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317241029 |
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Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied at the same time as it appears without acknowledgement. While classic authors can show us how to connect an ethics with a concept of human nature, current humanists must tackle the sociobiological view of human nature and interrogate humanism in the light of the ecological crisis. Humanist Realism for Sociologists both explains and explores some of the main arguments surrounding humanism put forward by classic social theorists such as Aristotle, Marx and Weber, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Braidotti, Oakley, Weedon, Firestone, Connell, Flyvjberg, Foucault and Bourdieu. A must-have tool for understanding how value perspectives cannot be eliminated from the social sciences, this book is essential for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, social work, human geography, political philosophy and ecology.
Author | : Sean Creaven |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134562209 |
Download Marxism and Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.
Author | : Ismael Al-Amoudi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351233688 |
Download Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social orders. The authors, all members of the Centre for Social Ontology, ask what is specific about humanity’s nature and worth, and what are their main challenges in contemporary societies? Examining the ways in which recent advances in technology threaten to blur and displace the boundaries constitutive of our shared humanity, Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina explores the philosophical and ethical questions raised by these developments, and discusses the dangers posed by the combination of transhumanism with post-humanist social theories and antihumanist practices, institutions and ideologies.
Author | : Cornie Alant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrea Maccarini |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136633197 |
Download Sociological Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in contemporary sociology, like systems theory and rational choice theory. Divided into three parts, social ontology, sociological theory, and methodology, each part includes a systematic presentation, a comment, and a wider discussion by the editors, thereby taking on the form of a dialogue among experts. This book is a uniquely blended and consistent conversation showing the convergence of European social theory on a critical realist and relational way of thinking. This volume is extremely important both for teaching purposes and for all those scholars who wish to get a fresh perspective on some deep dynamics of contemporary sociology.
Author | : Douglas V. Porpora |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107107377 |
Download Reconstructing Sociology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.
Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-03-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022623200X |
Download To Flourish or Destruct Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures. In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our ‘souls’ or ‘hearts.’” Building on Smith’s previous work, To Flourish or Destruct examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? Smith argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, constitutionally good for all human beings. He goes on to explore the ways we can and do fail to realize these ends—a failure that can result in varying gradations of evil. Rooted in critical realism and informed by work in philosophy, psychology, and other fields, Smith’s ambitious book situates the idea of personhood at the center of our attempts to understand how we might shape good human lives and societies. Praise for To Flourish or Destruct “This major work in sociology theory should be read by social scientists in all disciplines. Highly recommended.” —Choice “To Flourish or Destruct poses a powerful and important challenge to the entire discipline of sociology. Smith is becoming the anchor of a humanist renewal in sociology and although he is not alone in this movement, what makes To Flourish or Destruct different is a coherent, new, oppositional perspective that draws on critical realism to affirm both human personhood and the ever-present moral element in human affairs. Smith’s Personalism could become the banner around which a very different kind of sociology develops, one that respects the centered consciousness that is human personhood.” —Douglas Porpora, Drexel University “This book represents a major advance in sociology and more specifically within critical realism, which is gradually emerging as a full-fledged alternative in the social sciences. I am fundamentally convinced by this book.” —George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
Author | : Marcus Morgan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317612345 |
Download Pragmatic Humanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and responsibilities? If so, to what—or perhaps to whom—are these responsibilities? Installing humanity as its epistemological and normative start and endpoint, this book shows how humanism recasts sociology as an activity that does not merely do things, or effect things, but is also self-consciously for something. Rather than resurrecting problematic classical conceptions of humanism, the book instead constructs its arguments on pragmatic grounds, showing how a pragmatic humanism presents an improved picture of both the nature and value of the discipline. This picture is based less around the claim that sociology is capable of providing authoritative revelations about society, and more upon its capacity to offer representations of the social in epistemologically open, transformative, ethical, and hopeful ways. Ultimately, it argues that sociology’s real value can only be disclosed by replacing its image as a discipline aimed towards disinterested social enlightenment with one of itself as a practice both dependent upon, and at its best self-consciously aimed towards, human ends and imperatives. It will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences, and to those working in social theory, sociology, and philosophy of the social sciences in particular.
Author | : Joseph A. Scimecca |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Society and Freedom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a thoughtful examination of the discipline of sociology from a humanistic perspective. It contends that dispassionate observation and analysis are not enough; rather, sociologists must actively challenge views and conditions that restrain human potential. Scimecca examines society, culture, roles, social stratification, and inequality, institutions, legitimacy, and authority.
Author | : D. Layder |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1990-02-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230374174 |
Download The Realist Image in Social Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A constructive critique and development of the new realist philosophy of social science as it is specifically applied to sociology and social psychology. Dr Layder argues that while the realist project is a move in the right direction (i.e. to provide a viable alternative to positivism), there are certain problems and ambiguities in the realist programme as it now stands. The book confronts these problems and ambiguities in an innovative and controversial way while remaining committed to the general objectives of realism. In so doing the book attempts to go beyond current realist ideas and thereby expand its explanatory base and power.