The social in question : new bearings in history and the social sciences / edited by Patrick Joyce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joyce, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--History.

Sociology.

Sociology--Historiography.

Social history--Historiography.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has taken on many guises and the social in Question represents an attempt to pull these diverse forms of questioning together.Drawn form sociology, cultural studies, history and theology, an international and eminent cast of contributors look at how the idea of 'the social' developed from its mediaeval fo

Contents:

Cover; The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Old Social: Histories of the Social; 2. The Mediaeval Origins of Civil Society; 3. The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-century British Moral Philosophy; 4. Repatriating Modernity's Alleged Debts to the Enlightenment: French Revolutionary Social Science and the Genesis of the Nation State; 5. The Colonial Genealogy of Society: Community and Political Modernity in India

6. Maps, Blood and the City: The Governance of the Social in Nineteenth-century BritainPart II. The New Social: Theory, Practice and Disciplines; 7. Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social; 8. The Place of Space in the Study of the Social; 9. The Spaces of Clock Times; 10. History, Theory, Disciplinarity; 11. Cultures of Inquiry and the Rethinking of Disciplines; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-134-57369-3

1-280-11201-8

9786610112012

0-203-99453-1

9780203994535

OCLC:

252960587