The sociological revolution : from the Enlightenment to the global age / Richard Kilminster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilminster, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--History.

Sociology.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today.

Contents:

THE SOCIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION From the Enlightenment to the global age; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I From philosophy to the sociology of knowledge; 1 Sociologists and philosophy; Preamble; The culture of philosophers; The sociological revolution; Sociology and philosophy today; Philosophy as a culture of defence; Philosophers' self definitions; The 'end of philosophy' thesis; 2 The Hegelian apogee; Kant and Hegel; The Kantian hegemony; The Hegelian temptation; Sociological observations; Metacritique or socio-genesis?

3 Marx's theory of knowledge as a partial breakthroughThe theory and practice dualism; The primacy of the practical; Marx's synthesis: the practical core; The theoretical inertia of the Marxian tradition; Part II Figurational explorations; 4 The limits of transcendental sociology; The ubiquity of transcendentalism; Back to Parsons; The Kantian inspiration; Transcendentalism or developmentalism?; Excursus: social phenomenology as proto-sociology; 5 The structure of structuralism; Preamble; Structuralism: a first approximation; The individual ego or knowing subject; Metaphysical dualisms

Positivism and empiricismTheories of diachronic social processes; Structuralism as para-sociology: Levi Strauss and Foucault; Summary; 6 Globalization as an emergent concept; An emerging area of inquiry; Forerunners; Marx's synthesis: global aspects; Thinking globally; Sociological issues; Orientation and disorientation; 7 Structuration theory as a world-view; Parsonian affinities; New Liberal affinities; The scope of sociology; Philosophy and 'social theory'; Interaction or interdependence?; Systematics or socio-genesis?; 8 Sociology since 1945: socio-genetic and psychogenetic aspects

Validity, progress and phaseologyThe institutionalization of sociology: the British case; Functional democratization and informalization; The three phases of post-war sociology; Epilogue; 9 Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-97163-X

1-134-97164-8

1-280-56266-8

9786610562664

0-203-02969-0

9780203029695

OCLC:

826494841