د. فرغلى هارون
المدير العـام
 عدد الرسائل : 3278
تاريخ التسجيل : 07/05/2008
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Sociological Objects
Reconfiguration of social theory
Edited by Geoff Cooper, Andrew King, & Ruth Rettie
Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009
208 pages
1.78 mb What are the aims of sociology? What are its objects of study? How relevant is the classical tradition to the practice of sociology today? This volume brings together internationally renowned and new scholars to consider the changing relationship between contemporary and classical sociology. Arguing that recent historical and theoretical developments make reconsideration timely, it suggests that whilst the classical tradition has a continuing pertinence, it is inevitably subject to ongoing reconfiguration; contributors focus on a number of different aspects of this process. The book is organised into three thematic sections that explore, in turn, the relevance of classical and contemporary sociology for: the conceptualisation of sociological objects; the conceptualisation of social practice; and the conceptualisation of social theory.Assessing the explanatory value of classical and contemporary forms of sociology, interrogating social theory as both a form of explanation and a mode of practice, and considering the possible consequences for the discipline of questions about its subject matter, quot;Sociological Objectsquot; steers a course between assertions about radical epistemological breaks on the one hand, and reverence for the classical tradition on the other. Rather, it emphasises the value of reworking, reconsidering and reconfiguring sociological thought. Contents
1 The Objects of Sociology: An Introduction
Geoff Cooper PART 1 SOCIAL THINGS
2 Durkheim’s Globality
David Inglis and Roland Robertson
3 Back to the Things Themselves: On Simmelian Objects
Olli Pyyhtinen
4 Durkheim’s Social Facts and the Performative Model: Reconsidering the Objective Nature of Social Phenomena
Irene Rafanell PART 2 SOCIAL PRACTICES
5 Communities of Practice vs. Traditional Communities: The State of Sociology in a Context of Globalization
Anne War.eld Rawls
6 Working Out What Garfinkel Could Possibly be Doing with “Durkheim’s Aphorism”
Michael Lynch
7 Mathematical Equations as Durkheimian Social Facts? 119
Christian Greiffenhagen and Wes Sharrock PART 3 SOCIAL THEORIES
8 Social Theory in Situated Practice: Theoretical Categories in Everyday Discourse
Nanna Mik-Meyer
9 Appropriation, Translation and the Opening of Theory
Anna Tsatsaroni and Geoff Cooper
10 Identity after The Moment of Theory
Paul du Gay
11 Concluding Thoughts: Reconfigurations of Social Theory
Andrew King and Ruth Rettie
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