Michael E. Brown

The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael E. Brown is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and former Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of The Historiography of Communism, Collective Behavior (with Amy Goldman) and The Production of Society as well as New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, which he co-edited with Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten and George Snedeker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910160
• ISBN-10: 1439910162
• Artikelnr.: 41855889

Autorenporträt

Michael E. Brown is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and former Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of The Historiography of Communism, Collective Behavior (with Amy Goldman) and The Production of Society as well as New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, which he co-edited with Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten and George Snedeker.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs? 
 
I SocialIty: The Problem of Definition
 
 1 The Urgency of Defining the Social
 2 Society as a Basic Fact
 3 Dependence and Autonomy
 4 The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact
 5 The Sociality of Agency
 6 Models, Theory, and Theorizing
 7 Theorizing
 8 Historicism and Its Alternative
 9 Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes
 
II Social Action
 
 10 Can "the Social" Be a Proper Object of Theory?
 11 Further Problems in Theorizing the Social
 12 Social Action as Action
 13 The Self of the Actor
 14 Self and Situation
 15 Self and Agency
 16 Social Action Reconsidered
 
III Subjects and Situations
 
 17 Overview
 18 Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences
 19 Objects and Their Subjects
 20 The Positive Sense of "Situation"
 21 Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity
 22 Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation
 23 Criticism and Human Affairs
 24 Collective Enunciation
 25 Subjectivity and Objectivity
 26 Summary, Reprise, and Transition
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index