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Restoring the Classic in Sociology: Traditions, Texts and the Canon
Alan R. How
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Description for Restoring the Classic in Sociology: Traditions, Texts and the Canon
Hardcover. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPS; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as ideologically outdated. The author mounts a strong challenge to this view, criticising such notions as de-traditionalization, structuration and postmodernism, emphasizing instead the relevance of habit, re-traditionalization, and social integration across time. Arguing that sociology has eliminated the importance of the past, history, and tradition in favour of the transience of the present, he revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debate to argue ... Read more
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as ideologically outdated. The author mounts a strong challenge to this view, criticising such notions as de-traditionalization, structuration and postmodernism, emphasizing instead the relevance of habit, re-traditionalization, and social integration across time. Arguing that sociology has eliminated the importance of the past, history, and tradition in favour of the transience of the present, he revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debate to argue ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230013261
SKU
V9780230013261
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About Alan R. How
Alan R. How is Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK.
Reviews for Restoring the Classic in Sociology: Traditions, Texts and the Canon
“Presenting an argument that brings many voices into the conversation while relying in particular on Hans-Georg Gadamer, the book is engaging and full of insights … . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” (P. Kivisto, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017)