Multiplitism : set theory and sociology / Eliran Bar-El.
Bar-El, Eliran, author.
2021
HM48
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Title Multiplitism : set theory and sociology / Eliran Bar-El.
Author Bar-El, Eliran, author.
ISBN 9783030870522 (electronic bk.)
3030870529 (electronic bk.)
9783030870515
3030870510
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87052-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-87052-2 doi
Call Number HM48
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.0727
Summary This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics. Utilising its philosophical exploration delineated by Alain Badiou, the book further translates his work into the field of social science. The result of this translation is termed Multiplitism, which evades the limiting contradictions of existing approaches. Drawing on the mathematical notion of set and relating it to recent sociological turns such as the relational and the ontological, the book proposes a scale-relativity through which the researcher (as subject) and the researched (as object) are integrated. The book will be of interest to social scientists, particularly social theorists and advanced level students. Eliran Bar-El is a sociologist of knowledge based at the University of Cambridge where he recently completed his PhD.
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Part 1:Towards a Sociology of Multiplicities
1. Introduction and Retroduction: The Logic of the Social
2. The Antinomies of the Social: Self-Reference, Individual, and Society
3. Problems Abound: MultiplicitiesBeyond the One and the Many.-Part 2: The Events of the Social: Counting the Dialectic.-4.1 2: From Science to Social Science: Positivism
5.2 3: From Kant to Hegel: Conflictualism
6.3 2: American InterludeFrom James (Back) to Kant: Pragmatism
7.3 4: From Hegel to Badiou: Ontology of the Void
Part 3. Means & Ends: The Four of the (Greimasian) Square
8. Four Examples of Squared Analysis
9. Societies, Multiplicities, Sets: From Typology to Topology
10. Conclusion : Multiplitism and the Singular.

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