LEADER 04508nam 22006255 450 001 9910253342103321 005 20240313102951.0 010 $a9781349583485 010 $a1349583480 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-58348-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000734847 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-58348-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4720299 035 $a(Perlego)3492202 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000734847 100 $a20160630d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRestoring the Classic in Sociology $eTraditions, Texts and the Canon /$fby Alan R. How 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (VI, 260 p.) 311 08$a9780230013261 311 08$a0230013260 327 $aIntroduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. The Issue: The Sense of an Ending -- Part II. The Wider Context: The Past, the Classic, and the Identity of Sociology -- Chapter 2. In Pursuit of Identity: Fragmentation, Conflict and Crisis -- Chapter 3. On the Antipathy of Sociology to the Past -- Chapter 4. Contested Identity: Sociology in Postmodern Times -- Chapter 5. Rethinking Tradition -- Part III. Hermeneutics, Tradition, Classic and Canon -- Chapter 6. The Hermeneutic Approach -- Chapter 7. Hermeneutics, Tradition and the Classic Text -- Chapter 8. Canons and Their Discontents. . 330 $a'This book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the role of 'the classic' in sociology. In terms of both breadth and depth, Alan How has done a brilliant job in providing an inclusive, undogmatic, and inspiring account of the multiple ways in which key intellectual traditions and canons have shaped, and continue to shape, paradigmatic developments in contemporary sociological analysis.'  - Simon Susen, City University, UK 'This lively and engaging book moves from an exploration of the question of sociology's current response to its "classics" and the idea of a sociological "canon" to a broader defence of a hermeneutic approach to tradition in social thought and  in modern societies.'  - William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK This book examines the way sociology has eliminated the importance of the past, history, and tradition in favour of the transience of the present. The role of theclassic text in sociology has produced criticism that the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim are now ideologically dubious and sociologically irrelevant. Challenging this view, the author criticises such notions as de-traditionalization, structuration and postmodernism, emphasizing instead the relevance of habit, re-traditionalization, and social integration across time. Demonstrating that classical sociology continues to be highly relevant to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences, he revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debate to argue that tradition is the ground of the classic, and the classic something that must prove itself anew in subsequent situations. He uses the work of Durkheim, Simmel and Weber to illustrate this process. Drawing on Archer's account of structure and agency, he makes a parallel distinction between 'classic' and 'canon', allowing us to appreciate the separate qualities of each. This major contribution to the field is essential reading for scholarsand students of sociology and social theory. Alan R. How is Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK. 606 $aSociology 606 $aPhilosophy and social sciences 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aHermeneutics 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aSociological Theory 606 $aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 606 $aSocial Theory 606 $aHermeneutics 606 $aCritical Theory 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aPhilosophy and social sciences. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHermeneutics. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 14$aSociological Theory. 615 24$aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 615 24$aHermeneutics. 615 24$aCritical Theory. 676 $a300.1 700 $aHow$b Alan R$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064820 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253342103321 996 $aRestoring the Classic in Sociology$92541106 997 $aUNINA