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21%OFFAndrew Abbott - Processual Sociology - 9780226336626 - V9780226336626
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Processual Sociology

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Description for Processual Sociology Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 29. Weight in Grams: 474.
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing--making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world--both individuals and entities--must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School of Sociology, provides a means for the disciplines of history and sociology to interact with and reflect on each other. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226336626
SKU
V9780226336626
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About Andrew Abbott
Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He edits the American Journal of Sociology.

Reviews for Processual Sociology
Abbott has long been one of sociology's most fertile and original thinkers. These lucid and challenging essays display Abbott's remarkably wide-ranging sociological intelligence at its best. Cumulatively, they articulate the core principles of a distinctively processual sociology, and they challenge us to recognize the irreducibly humanistic and moral nature of the sociological enterprise.
Rogers Brubaker, University of California-Los Angeles ... Read more

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