Sociological Amnesia

Cross-currents in Disciplinary History
Herausgeber: Law, Alex; Lybeck, Eric Royal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sociological Amnesia focuses on singular contributions to sociology that were once considered central to the discipline but are today largely neglected. Chapters explore the work of illustrious predecessors such Raymond Aron, Erich Fromm and G.D.H. Cole as well as examining exceptional cases of reputational revival as in the case of Norbert Elias or Gabriel Tarde. Through understanding the obstacles of recognition faced by female sociologists like Viola Klein and Olive Schreiner, and public intellectuals like Cornelius Castoriadis, the volume considers the reasons why certain kinds of sociology are hailed as central to the discipline, whilst others are forgotten.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781472442345
• ISBN-10: 1472442342
• Artikelnr.: 45009040

Autorenporträt

Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, UK. He is the author of Social Theory for Today: Making Sense of Social Worlds, and Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory. Eric Royal Lybeck is completing his doctoral research in the Department of Sociology at University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Sociological Amnesia: An Introduction
1. British Sociology and Raymond Aron
2. Two Men
Two Books
Many Disciplines: Robert N. Bellah
Clifford Geertz
and the Making of Iconic Cultural Objects
3. Erich Fromm: Studies in Social Character
4. From Literature to Sociology: The Shock of Celine's Literary Style and Viola Klein's Attempt to Understand it (With a Little Help from Karl Mannheim)
5. Olive Schreiner
Sociology and the Company she Kept
6. Lucien Goldmann's Key Sociological Problems and his Critical Heritage: From the Hidden God to the Hidden Class
7. G.D.H. Cole: Sociology
Politics
Empowerment and 'How to be Socially Good'
8. Social Monads
Not Social Facts: Gabriel Tarde's Tool for Sociological Analysis
9. Alasdair MacIntyre's Lost Sociology
10. Castoriadis and Social Theory: From Marginalization to Canonization to Re-Radicalization
11. Norbert Elias: Sociological Amnesia and 'The Most Important Thinker You Have Never Heard Of''