Alex Law

Social Theory for Today

Making Sense of Social Worlds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781446209011
• ISBN-10: 1446209016
• Artikelnr.: 41398645

Autorenporträt

Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Narcissism of Minor Differences
Social Theory and Crisis
Positivist Turn: Auguste Comte
Marx's Turn
Nietzsche's Turn: Max Weber and Georg Simmel
Ideological Turn: Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs
Reflexive Turn: Otto Neurath and Empirical Sociology
Modernist Turn: Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer
Critical Turn: The Frankfurt School
Negative Turn: Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas
Quotidian Turn: Henri Lefebvre
Corporeal Turn: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Pragmatic Turn: Social theory in the US
Cultural Turn: Social Theory in France and Britain
Relational Turn: Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
Conclusion

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Introduction: The Narcissism of Minor Differences
Social Theory and Crisis
Positivist Turn: Auguste Comte
Marx's Turn
Nietzsche's Turn: Max Weber and Georg Simmel
Ideological Turn: Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs
Reflexive Turn: Otto Neurath and Empirical Sociology
Modernist Turn: Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer
Critical Turn: The Frankfurt School
Negative Turn: Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas
Quotidian Turn: Henri Lefebvre
Corporeal Turn: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Pragmatic Turn: Social theory in the US
Cultural Turn: Social Theory in France and Britain
Relational Turn: Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
Conclusion

Rezensionen

Pivoting on a theme appropriate to our dark times - the need to understand social crisis - this learned book reverses the conventional Parsonian focus on social order. Taking Hamlet s brooding sense of times out of joint as the prism through which he approaches the modern social world, the author demonstrates throughout his exceptional breadth of knowledge, ending with a lucid and masterly comparison of Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu. This book is distinctive for extending the usual sociological reach, reopening territory that has lain fallow, set aside from the well-ploughed fields of orthodox social theory. In doing so, he not only produces fresh insight into familiar theorists but guards against collective forgetting of the sociological canon. The result is an illuminating work which repudiates ill-informed sniping at thinkers such as Auguste Comte, Otto Neurath, Siegfried Kracauer and Franz Borkenau, whilst also showing the canonical figures in a new light.

Bridget Fowler