The Sociological Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Global Age

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ISBN: 9780415029209 | 0415029201
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Copyright: 10/1/1998

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Richard Kilminster provides an historical analysis of sociology and a detailed study of contemporary theories 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

(4)

Acknowledgements

PART I From philosophy to the sociology of knowledge

(54)

1 Sociologists and philosophy

(24)

Preamble

(2)

The culture of philosophers

(5)

The sociological revolution

(4)

Sociology and philosophy today

(4)

Philosophy as a culture of defence

(3)

Philosophers' self-definitions

(2)

The `end of philosophy' thesis

(4)

2 The Hegelian apogee

(14)

Kant and Hegel

(2)

The Kantian hegemony

(2)

The Hegelian temptation

(4)

Sociological observations

(5)

Metacritique or socio-genesis?

(1)

3 Marx's theory of knowledge as a partial breakthrough

(14)

The theory and practice dualism

(2)

The primacy of the practical

(2)

Marx's synthesis: the practical core

(5)

The theoretical inertia of the Marxian tradition

(5)

PART II Figurational explorations

(125)

4 The limits of transcendental sociology

(11)

The ubiquity of transcendentalism

(1)

Back to Parsons

(2)

The Kantian inspiration

(2)

Transcendentalism or developmentalism?

(2)

Excursus: social phenomenology as proto-sociology

(4)

5 The structure of structuralism

(25)

Preamble

(1)

Structuralism: a first approximation

(3)

The individual ego or knowing subject

(2)

Metaphysical dualisms

(2)

Positivism and empiricism

(2)

Theories of diachronic social processes

(2)

Structuralism as para-sociology: Levi Strauss and Foucault

(11)

Summary

(3)

6 Globalization as an emergent concept

(22)

An emerging area of inquiry

(4)

Forerunners

(3)

Marx's synthesis: global aspects

100

(3)

Thinking globally

103

(2)

Sociological issues

105

(5)

Orientation and disorientation

110

(5)

7 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)

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)

9 Concluding remarks

173

(7)

Notes

180

(13)

Bibliography

193

(21)

Index

214

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