Sociological objects [ reconfigurations of social theory
This volume interrogates the changing relationship between contemporary and classical sociology and the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the discipline. In three thematic sections, the book explores the conception of sociological objects, social practice, and social theory
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England Burlington, VT :
Ashgate ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The objects of sociology : an introduction
- 2. Durkheim's globality
- 3. Back to the things themselves : on Simmelian objects
- 4. Durkheim's social facts and the performative model : reconsidering the objective nature of social phenomena
- 5. Communities of practice vs. traditional communities : the state of sociology in a context of globalization
- 6. Working out what Garfinkel could possibly be doing with "Durkheim's aphorism"
- 7. Mathematical equations as Durkheimian social facts?
- 8. Social theory in situated practice : theoretical categories in everyday discourse
- 9. Appropriation, translation and the opening of theory
- 10. 'Identity' after 'the moment of theory'
- 11. Concluding thoughts : reconfigurations of social theory