A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air

AvPeter Wagner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the 'organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the 'rationalistic revolution' of the 'golden age' of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the 'collectivist alternative': the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by postmodernists today. This is a major contribution to contemporary social theory and provides a host of essential insights into the task of social science today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-07-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Antal sidor:208
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761965688

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Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence

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Peter Wagner´s study is surely very helpful for those who study the interrelations between developments in the society and the historical evolution of social sciences. For all students who search a small volume, Wagner´s study is quite appropriate: Thus, one of the most advantages in this regard is Wagner´s pragmatist approach: to show this central problem by a short and equally well informed book. \All in all: The key concepts of present sociology referred in the second part of the book can be understood better by examining the history of social sciences themselves.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: RECONSIDERING THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESAs a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything Else but NewClassical Sociology and the First Crisis of ModernityTime of Politics, and Not of LawPolitical Analysis during the First Crisis of ModernityAdjusting Social RelationsSocial Science and the Organization of ModernityThe Mythical Promise of Societal RenewalSocial Science and Reform CoalitionsOut of StepThe Social Sciences in the Second Crisis of ModernityPART TWO: RETHINKING KEY CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESChoice and Decision-MakingAction and InstitutionCulture (with Heidrun Friese)SocietyPolityModernity