Alex Dennis

Magic, Science and Society (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how the 'rationality debate' has developed from E.E. Evans-Pritchard's study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch's argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the status of science in the 1970s and 1980s, to the more recent epistemological and ontological turns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429602887
• Artikelnr.: 70305248

Autorenporträt

Alex Dennis is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he also leads the BA Sociology programme. His research explores theories of rationality, ethnomethodology and conversational analysis, ethnographic methodologies, workplace and organisational studies, sociologies of knowledge, social interaction and social order perspectives. He is the author of Making Decisions about People: The Organisational Contingencies of Illness (Routledge, 2001), co-author of Perspectives in Sociology (Sixth Edition, Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Human Agents and Social Structures (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Understanding magic 2. The implications of magic 3. A
social science? 4. The 'rationality debate' 5. Redefining rationality 6. Is
that what you want 'cause that's what'll happen Conclusion: Opportunities
lost