Colin Campbell

The Myth of Social Action

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Produktbeschreibung

The Myth Of Social Action is a powerful critique of contemporary sociology and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy. Arguing that current sociological theory has lost its way. Colin Campbell presents a case for a new 'dynamic interpretivism', a perspective on human conduct which is more in keeping with spirit of traditional Weberian action theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521646369
• ISBN-10: 0521646367
• Artikelnr.: 22324138

Autorenporträt

Ex Army, retired cop and former Scenes Of Crime Officer. Colin Campbell is the author of British crime novels, Blue Knight White Cross, and Northern Ex, and US thrillers Jamaica Plain, Final Cut, and Shelter Cove. His Jim Grant thrillers bring a rogue Yorkshire cop to America, and his Vince McNulty novels bring a Yorkshire ex-cop to Hollywood. He has also written several children's books, that his daughter read first, about troubled youths seeking redemption.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Action reported missing in action theory
3. Action and social action
4. Action versus social action
5. The rise of social situationalism
6. The argument by denial
7. Accounts and actions
8. The argument by exclusion
9. The argument by incorporation
10. The 'learning everything from others' thesis
11. The communicative act paradigm
12. The linguistic turn for the worse
13. The myth of social action
14. The obstacle which is social situationalism
15. Bringing action back in.