The Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Sociology |
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Author | : Jeffrey Alexander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317808614 |
In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317808665 |
This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.
Author | : Professor Uta Gerhardt |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 140949490X |
The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology and the central place occupied by methodology - which enables us to better understand the relationship between American and European social theory. Revealing American democracy and its nemesis, National Socialism in Germany as the basis of his theory of society, this book explores the debates in which Parsons was engaged throughout his life, with the Frankfurt School, C. Wright Mills and the young radicals among the "disobedient" student generation, as well as economism and utilitarianism in social theory; the opponents that Parsons confronted in the interests of humanism. In addition to revisiting Parsons' extensive oeuvre, Uta Gerhardt takes up themes in current research and theory - including social inequality, civic culture, and globalization - offering a fascinating demonstration of what the conceptual approaches of Parsons can accomplish today. Revealing methodology and the American ethos to be the cornerstones of Parsons' social thought, this book will appeal not only to those with interests in classical sociology - and who wish to fully understand what this 'classic' has to offer - but also to those who wish to make sociology answer to the problems of the society of the present.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian Craib |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317325273 |
The revised edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a clear, accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social theory.As with the first edition, the book is based around the themes of structure and action. After the introductory chapters which examine the nature of theory and its role in the social world, the book then turns to theories of action and the inability of those theories to comprehend social structures in a coherent way.Part 1 covers: Parson's structural-functionalism and the development of conlict theory and neofunctionalism; rational choice theory; symbolic interactionism; ethnomethodology and structuration theory.Part 2 looks at structuralism, structuralist Marxism, and the development of post-structuralist and postmodernist theory.Part 3 examines Critical Theory and the work of Jurgen Habermas.In conclusion, Ian Craib discusses current trends in theory and what might be expected in the future.This second edition has been revised throughout. There are new chapters on rational choice theory and structuration theory and existing chapters have been extended to deal with the development of neofunctionalism, postmodernism and the recent works of Habermas as well as recent developments in other approaches.Throughout, the aim of the book is to demystify a diffcult subject area, emphasising the practical and everyday nature of theoretical thinking in the context of making sense of a rapidly changing world. The late Ian Craib was Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex.