The Centrality of sociality : responses to Michael E. Brown's The concept of the social in uniting the social sciences and the humanities / edited by Jeffrey A. Halley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) and Harry F. Dahms (University of Tennessee, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halley, Jeffrey A., editor.

Dahms, Harry F., editor.

Series:

Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 39.

Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--United States--Philosphy.

Social sciences.

Humanities--United States--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

What do we mean by the word "social?" In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown. The Centrality of Sociality provides analyses of important distinctions between individual and society, agency-dependent and agency-independent objectivity, subject and object, theory and theorizing, and action and "course of activity." Apart from its theoretical interest, the book raises questions about the compelling idea that "the individual is the ultimate referent of moral discourse," formulating the question "what is human about human affairs" in such a way that the difficulties involved in defining the word individual appear to place in jeopardy the idea of the individual. The chapters analyze themes such as the conceptualization of the social vis-a-vis the individual, theories of action, and notions of subject-object relations. A thought-provoking collection of research, this edited volume is key reading for scholars and researchers in sociology.

Contents:

Introduction: What is human about human affairs? / Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms

Chapter 1. Consciousness and crisis: Durkheim, marx, spinoza and revolutionary vs reactionary spirit today / Roslyn Wallach Bologh

Chapter 2. The uncertainties of the social / Jean-Louis Fabiani

Chapter 3. Brown on sociality and the social / Peter K. Manning

Chapter 4. Brown's "the course of activity": Non-repeatability, the avant-garde, and temporality / Jeffrey A. Halley

Chapter 5. The concept of sociality in the literary criticism of georg lukács, lucien goldmann and theodor w. Adorno / Daglind E. Sonolet

Chapter 6. In defense of the social: Convergences and divergences between the humanities and social sciences in the United States / Harry F. Dahms

Chapter 7. The ontology of the social as a theory of social forms / Michael J. Thompson

Chapter 8. Other voices: The concept of heteroglossia in michael e. Brown's concept of the social in uniting the humanities and social sciences / Allen Dunn

Chapter 9. Conceptual implications in social sciences for inquiring into the social. Insights from michael e. Brown's the concept of the social in uniting the social sciences and humanities / Ilaria Riccioni

Chapter 10. Theorizing, bounded rationality, and expertise: Cognitive sociology and the quasi-realism of problem-solving as a course of activity / Michael W. Raphael

Chapter 11. Response: What is distinctively human about human affairs: Sociality and the question of society / Michael E. Brown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781802623611

1802623612

9781802623635

1802623639

OCLC:

1354208833