04107nam 2200697 a 450 991081603610332120200520144314.01-134-97163-X1-134-97164-81-280-56266-897866105626640-203-02969-010.4324/9780203029695 (CKB)1000000000007405(EBL)179619(OCoLC)826494841(SSID)ssj0000247935(PQKBManifestationID)11191165(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247935(PQKBWorkID)10200158(PQKB)11612816(MiAaPQ)EBC179619(Au-PeEL)EBL179619(CaPaEBR)ebr10017430(CaONFJC)MIL56266(OCoLC)70763414(EXLCZ)99100000000000740519980430d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sociological revolution from the Enlightenment to the global age /Richard Kilminster1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19981 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-26310-7 0-415-02920-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index.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 dualismsPositivism 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 aspectsValidity, 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; IndexBy 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.SociologyHistorySociologyPhilosophyKnowledge, Sociology ofSociologyHistory.SociologyPhilosophy.Knowledge, Sociology of.301/.09Kilminster Richard923754MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816036103321The sociological revolution4088867UNINA