What Holism Can Do for Social Theory

Barbara Hanson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-74390-7 (ISBN)

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This book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - debates which appear unnecessary, narrow, and acontextual when their origins are examined. Positing that solutions to these impasses can be found by moving to alternative holistic epistemology, and looking at issues in terms of interrelations rather than parts, the book shows the promise of a social theory that provides a unit of analysis that mediates between local and global relations.

Barbara Hanson is Professor of Sociology at York University.

1. Where Have We Been? Where Might We Go? 2. Facticity 3. How Have We Come to Be Doing Mechanism? 4. How Do We Do Mechanism? 5. Beyond Mechanism 6. Sociality 7. Holism, Blame, and Power 8. Moment, Monument, Movement

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.2014
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-415-74390-7 / 0415743907
ISBN-13	978-0-415-74390-7 / 9780415743907
Zustand	Neuware