LEADER 04246nam 22005775 450 001 9910508482403321 005 20240509003020.0 010 $a9783030870522 010 $a3030870529 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-87052-2 035 $a(CKB)5600000000080714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6797314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6797314 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-87052-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000080714 100 $a20211102d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMultiplitism $eSet Theory and Sociology /$fby Eliran Bar-El 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (124 pages) 311 08$a9783030870515 311 08$a3030870510 327 $aPart 1:Towards a Sociology of Multiplicities -- 1. Introduction and Retroduction: The Logic of the Social -- 2. The Antinomies of the Social: Self-Reference, Individual, and Society -- 3. Problems Abound: Multiplicities-Beyond the One and the Many.-Part 2: The Events of the Social: Counting the Dialectic.-4.1 ? 2: From Science to Social Science: Positivism -- 5.2 ? 3: From Kant to Hegel: Conflictualism -- 6.3 ? 2: American Interlude-From James (Back) to Kant: Pragmatism -- 7.3 ? 4: From Hegel to Badiou: Ontology of the Void -- Part 3. Means & Ends: The Four of the (Greimasian) Square -- 8. Four Examples of Squared Analysis -- 9. Societies, Multiplicities, Sets: From Typology to Topology -- 10.Conclusion : Multiplitism and the Singular. 330 $a"Deploying the work of Badiou and Greimas, Bar-El advances a new approach to the reconciliation of objective and subjective orientations in social scientific enquiry. This is an important contribution to the resolution of an ongoing problem." - Derek Robbins, Emeritus Professor, University of East London, UK and author of The Bourdieu Paradigm (2019). "Multiplitism is an important intervention into contemporary sociological theory. I see it as contributing to the development of a new paradigm. We will need to see more scholarship in this area -- scholarship that opens sociology up to other perspectives such as this one -- in the coming years if sociology is to remain relevant." --Duane Rousselle, Professor, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics. Utilising its philosophical exploration delineated by Alain Badiou, the book further translates his work into the field of social science. The result of this translation is termed Multiplitism, which evades the limiting contradictions of existing approaches. Drawing on the mathematical notion of 'set' and relating it to recent sociological turns such as the relational and the ontological, the book proposes a scale-relativity through which the researcher (as subject) and the researched (as object) are integrated. The book will be of interest to social scientists, particularly social theorists and advanced level students. Eliran Bar-El is a sociologist of knowledge based at the University of Cambridge where he recently completed his PhD. 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aSociology$xPhilosophy 606 $aOntology 606 $aSocial Theory 606 $aPhilosophy of Sociology 606 $aOntology 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSociology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aOntology. 615 14$aSocial Theory. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Sociology. 615 24$aOntology. 676 $a301.072 676 $a301.0727 700 $aBar-El$b Eliran$01224407 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910508482403321 996 $aMultiplitism$92841979 997 $aUNINA