Marcus Morgan

Pragmatic Humanism

On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

This book suggests that sociology's real value can only be disclosed by replacing its image as a discipline aimed towards disinterested social enlightenment with an image of itself as a practice both dependent upon, and at its best self-consciously aimed towards, human ends and imperatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138808751
• ISBN-10: 113880875X
• Artikelnr.: 43020950

Autorenporträt

Marcus Morgan is a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is the author, with Patrick Baert, of Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Exhuming Humanism 2. The Phoenix of Humanism 3. A
Humanistic Conception of Knowledge and Its Political Implications 4.
Beginning with Ends: From Technocratic to Transformative Knowledge 5. The
Poverty of Moral Philosophy and the Strength of Sociological 'Ethics' 6.
The Responsibility for Sociological Hope 7. The Value of a Humanistic
Sociology