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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782916003321
• Autore: Kilminster Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-97163-X; 1-134-97164-8; 1-280-56266-8; 9786610562664; 0-203-02969-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 301/.09
• Soggetti: Sociology - History; Sociology - Philosophy; Knowledge, Sociology of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.