There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social
theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic,
essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists
criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic
conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how
social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are
constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of
holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore
critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals
with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two
conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which
is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and
Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of
social theory and of social sciences in general.
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ISBN
9780511737015
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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