Sociology of Rationality (eBook, ePUB)

Critiques and Creative Conversations
Redaktion: Patra, Soumyajit; Paltasingh, Tattwamasi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview - that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life - and as a philosophy - that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040165003
• Artikelnr.: 72274485

Autorenporträt

Soumyajit Patra is Professor of Sociology, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He is the former Coordinator of the Center for South Asian Studies, SKB University. Tattwamasi Paltasingh is Professor of Sociology and Head of the P.G. Department of Sociology at Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: REFLECTING RATIONALITY: OVERVIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES 2.
Enlightenment and Rationality 3. Reason in the Modern Age 4. Max Weber:
Rational Action, Rationalism and Rationalisation: The Anatomy of Extinction
5.Weber's Theory of Rationality: A Critical Reading 6. Postcolonial
Rationality SECTION II: RATIONALITY OF THE MARGINALIZED 7. Feminisms and
the Questions Concerning Rationality 8. Dependency and Protest: Choice and
Rationality of the Marginalised 9. Modern Secular Rationality and
'Christianisation-in-Depth': Between Marx and Foucault RATIONALITY:
CONTEXTUAL RAMIFICATIONS 10. Rationality and Economic Behaviour 11.
Rationality, Consumerism and Lifestyle Choices: Narratives of Urban Youth
12. 'McDonaldisation' of Education: Context and Critiques SECTION IV:
RATIONALITY: CRITIQUES AND CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS 13. Sociology in
Irrationalities: Contexts of the Commons 14. Towards Deconstructive
Rationality: Pathologies of Reason and Immanentist Counter-discourses 15.
The Trajectory of Politics-Rationality Interface: A Conceptual Framework
16. Rationality and Beyond: Towards Planetary Conversations