Download or read book Humanist Realism for Sociologists written by Terry Leahy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied at the same time as it appears without acknowledgement. While classic authors can show us how to connect an ethics with a concept of human nature, current humanists must tackle the sociobiological view of human nature and interrogate humanism in the light of the ecological crisis. Humanist Realism for Sociologists both explains and explores some of the main arguments surrounding humanism put forward by classic social theorists such as Aristotle, Marx and Weber, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Braidotti, Oakley, Weedon, Firestone, Connell, Flyvjberg, Foucault and Bourdieu. A must-have tool for understanding how value perspectives cannot be eliminated from the social sciences, this book is essential for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, social work, human geography, political philosophy and ecology.
Download or read book Humanist Realism for Sociologists written by Terry Leahy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Basic stuff - meta-theory for the social sciences -- Returning to meta-theory -- Is there a crisis in the social sciences? -- A crisis of the Left? -- Resisting meta-theory -- Bad meta-theory is always recommending the impossible -- Intended topics of the book -- My background in philosophy -- Connell's critique of metropolitan theory -- Reading this book -- 1 Humanism and its critics -- Humanism as ethics -- The post-humanist critique -- Humanism as a particular view of 'the human' -- Humanism as a 'universalistic' ethics -- Humanism as an anthropocentric ethics -- Bringing back the body -- Social variability and the centrality of culture -- How humans become social by transcending biology -- The structure/agency dilemma -- Dealing with racists and evolutionary psychologists -- Human nature by the back door -- The elephant in the room -- 2 Knowledge in the social sciences -- The philosophy of perception -- Sociology and epistemology -- The political problems of realism -- Direct realism and social science -- 3 Debates about epistemology in recent social science -- Goldfarb on facts and interpretations -- Social and natural sciences in Flyvbjerg -- Weedon's feminist poststructuralism -- How Foucault handles these issues -- Critical Realism and epistemology -- 4 Explanation in the social sciences -- Social versus natural sciences -- Elements of explanation in the social sciences -- The poststructuralist challenge to 'humanist' social sciences -- Discourses and subjects -- Determinist and agentic versions of poststructuralism -- The multiplicity of the subject? -- Discourses and ideologies -- Gender discourses and hegemonic masculinities -- Overlaps and mapping -- 5 What do social scientists do in their accounts? -- Weber's 'Protestant ethic'
Download or read book Sociological Realism written by Andrea Maccarini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in contemporary sociology, like systems theory and rational choice theory. Divided into three parts, social ontology, sociological theory, and methodology, each part includes a systematic presentation, a comment, and a wider discussion by the editors, thereby taking on the form of a dialogue among experts. This book is a uniquely blended and consistent conversation showing the convergence of European social theory on a critical realist and relational way of thinking. This volume is extremely important both for teaching purposes and for all those scholars who wish to get a fresh perspective on some deep dynamics of contemporary sociology.
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Download or read book Realist Responses to Post Human Society Ex Machina written by Ismael Al-Amoudi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social orders. The authors, all members of the Centre for Social Ontology, ask what is specific about humanity’s nature and worth, and what are their main challenges in contemporary societies? Examining the ways in which recent advances in technology threaten to blur and displace the boundaries constitutive of our shared humanity, Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina explores the philosophical and ethical questions raised by these developments, and discusses the dangers posed by the combination of transhumanism with post-humanist social theories and antihumanist practices, institutions and ideologies.
Download or read book Philosophical and Sociological Principles of Education written by R.P. Pathak and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical and Sociological Principles of Education examines the ideologies of eminent Eastern and Western educators and focuses on the history of various schools of thought, the role of education in Indian society, and how it leads to national integration and international understanding.
Download or read book The American Journal of Sociology written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.
Download or read book Science For Humanism written by Charles R. Varela and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Varela revisits the problem of structure versus agency. Based on his original insight into Kant's role in the debate, the author is able to solve this centuries old dilemma for the first time. He goes on to explain the wider ramifications of his discovery, addressing Giddens Call, the stalemate of the social and psychological sciences, determinism in science and postmodernism.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology written by François Dépelteau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences—one which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines. Relational sociology has been one of the key foundations of the “relational turn” in human sciences since the 1980s, and it offers a unique opportunity to redefine the basic epistemological and ontological principles of sociology as we know it. The contributors collected here aim to elucidate the complexity and the scope of this growing approach by dealing with three central questions: Where does relational sociology come from and what are its principal concerns? What are the main theoretical and methodological currents within relational sociology? What have we studied in relational sociology and what are the results?
Download or read book Marxism and Realism written by Sean Creaven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.
Download or read book Clinical Sociology written by Puspa Melati Wan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucidly written textbook covers the historical background of clinical sociology as a field and its developing trends around the world. It addresses the urgent need for sociologists to develop a clinical approach in their effort to improve society, with the emphasis that clinical sociology should complement the work of other disciplines such as clinical psychology, social work, and social anthropology. This book discusses in depth the concept of clinical sociology itself and the obligations of clinical sociologists. It fills a gap in the literature which reveals a lack of discussion and consensus on the roles and responsibilities of clinical sociologists, therefore making an important contribution to clinical sociology, and sociology, more broadly. Graduate students, practitioners and professionals in the field of clinical sociology, social work and other related disciplines will find this book very useful.
Download or read book Monadology and Sociology written by Gabriel de Tarde and published by re.press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Postmodernism written by Jose Lopez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion. The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis. After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the field to present the first truly interdisciplinary introduction to critical realism. The book presents the reader with a compendium of accessible essays illustrating the connection between meta-theory, theory and substantive research across Sociology, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Politics, Media Studies, Psychology and Science Studies. The flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future fo Marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernsim and the future of theory itself. Contributors: Allison Assiter, Ted Benton, Francis Barker, Roy Bhaskar, Jean Bricmont, Sue Clegg, Andrew Collier, Justin Cruickshank, Robert Fine, David Ford, Tim Forsyth, Rom Harre, Pam Higham, Philip Hodgkiss, Jose Lopez, Christopher Norris, Bertell Ollman, Jenneth Parker, Frank Pearce, Douglas V. Porpora, Garry Potter, John Scott, Philip Tew, Charles R Varela, Anthony Woodiwiss
Download or read book Sociology and Human Ecology written by JOHN A. JENKS SMITH (CHRIS.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology. Within Sociology and Human Ecology, Smith and Jenks argue that this position is no longer sustainable. Indeed, exhorting the reader to confront human ecology and its relation to the physical and biological environments, Smith and Jenks suggest that the development of understanding with regards to the position occupied by the social requires, in turn, an extension of the component disciplines and methodologies of a 'new' human socio-ecology. Aiming to evoke critical change to the possibility, status and range of the social sciences whilst also offering essential grounding for inter-disciplinary engagement, Sociology and Human Ecology will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Social Theory, Socio-Biology and Ecological Economics.
Download or read book Post Philosophical Sociology written by Richard Kilminster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon. Clarifying the contentious ‘post-philosophical’ aspects in order to supplement standard histories of sociology with new insights, it offers incisive evaluations of some of the bewildered attempts by prominent sociologists to diagnose the malaise of contemporary globalised society. It also challenges the orthodox limitation of the empirical scope of sociology to ‘modernity’. With its ominous warnings of the destructive prevalence of ‘overcritique’ in the discipline and lack of in-depth sociological psychology, Post-Philosophical Sociology will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychoanalysis, social philosophy, cultural theory and social and political theory with interests in developmental and dynamic thinking and the history of the discipline.
Download or read book What Is a Person written by Christian Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist’s quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society. Finding much current thinking on personhood to be confusing or misleading, Smith finds inspiration in critical realism and personalism. Drawing on these ideas, he constructs a theory of personhood that forges a middle path between the extremes of positivist science and relativism. Smith then builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and William Sewell to demonstrate the importance of personhood to our understanding of social structures. From there he broadens his scope to consider how we can know what is good in personal and social life and what sociology can tell us about human rights and dignity. Innovative, critical, and constructive, What Is a Person? offers an inspiring vision of a social science committed to pursuing causal explanations, interpretive understanding, and general knowledge in the service of truth and the moral good.
Download or read book Conceptualizing Relational Sociology written by C. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
