The Sociological Revolution: From the

In this new paperback version of his detailed study of contemporary theories, Richard Kilminster provides an historical analysis of sociology ranging from historical materialism, phenomonology, structuralism and world system theory, contending that the dynamic sociology of knowledge is the rightful heir of the sociological tradition.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xv

PART I From philosophy to the sociology of knowledge

1

(54)

Sociologists and philosophy

3

(24)

Preamble

3

(2)

The culture of philosophers

5

(5)

The sociological revolution

10

(4)

Sociology and philosophy today

14

(4)

Philosophy as a culture of defence

18

(3)

Philosophers' self-definitions

21

(2)

The `end of philosophy' thesis

23

(4)

The Hegelian apogee

27

(14)

Kant and Hegel

27

(2)

The Kantian hegemony

29

(2)

The Hegelian temptation

31

(4)

Sociological observations

35

(5)

Metacritique or socio-genesis?

40

(1)

Marx's theory of knowledge as a partial breakthrough

41

(14)

The theory and practice dualism

41

(2)

The primacy of the practical

43

(2)

Marx's synthesis: the practical core

45

(5)

The theoretical inertia of the Marxian tradition

50

(5)

PART II Figurational explorations

55

(125)

The limits of transcendental sociology

57

(11)

The ubiquity of transcendentalism

57

(1)

Back to Parsons

58

(2)

The Kantian inspiration

60

(2)

Transcendentalism or developmentalism?

62

(2)

Excursus: social phenomenology as proto-sociology

64

(4)

The structure of structuralism

68

(25)

Preamble

68

(1)

Structuralism: a first approximation

68

(3)

The individual ego or knowing subject

71

(2)

Metaphysical dualisms

73

(2)

Positivism and empiricism

75

(2)

Theories of diachronic social processes

77

(2)

Structuralism as para-sociology: Levi Strauss and Foucault

79

(11)

Summary

90

(3)

Globalization as an emergent concept

93

(22)

An emerging area of inquiry

93

(4)

Forerunners

97

(3)

Marx's synthesis: global aspects

100

(3)

Thinking globally

103

(2)

Sociological issues

105

(5)

Orientation and disorientation

110

(5)

Structuration theory as a world-view

115

(30)

Parsonian affinities

115

(2)

New Liberal affinities

117

(3)

The scope of sociology

120

(7)

Philosophy and `social theory'

127

(4)

Interaction or interdependence?

131

(6)

Systematics or socio-genesis?

137

(8)

Sociology since 1945: socio-genetic and psychogenetic aspects

145

(28)

Validity, progress and phaseology

145

(2)

The institutionalization of sociology: the British case

147

(1)

Functional democratization and informalization

147

(6)

The three phases of post-war sociology

153

(19)

Epilogue

172

(1)

Concluding remarks

173

(7)

Notes

180

(13)

Bibliography

193

(21)

Index

214

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The Sociological Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Global Age

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