Restoring the Classic in Sociology : Traditions, Texts and the Canon / by Alan R. How.
2016
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Title
Restoring the Classic in Sociology : Traditions, Texts and the Canon / by Alan R. How.
Author
How, Alan R., author.
ISBN
9781349583485 (electronic book)
1349583480 (electronic book)
0230013260
9780230013261
1349583480 (electronic book)
0230013260
9780230013261
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 260 pages)
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-349-58348-5 doi
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H61
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.01
Summary
"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the role of 'the classic' in sociology. In terms of both breadth and depth, Alan How has done a brilliant job in providing an inclusive, undogmatic, and inspiring account of the multiple ways in which key intellectual traditions and canons have shaped, and continue to shape, paradigmatic developments in contemporary sociological analysis."--Simon Susen, City University, UK 'This lively and engaging book moves from an exploration of the question of sociology's current response to its "classics" and the idea of a sociological "canon" to a broader defence of a hermeneutic approach to tradition in social thought and in modern societies.' - William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK This book examines the way sociology has eliminated the importance of the past, history, and tradition in favour of the transience of the present. The role of the classic text in sociology has produced criticism that the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim are now ideologically dubious and sociologically irrelevant. Challenging this view, the author criticises such notions as de-traditionalization, structuration and postmodernism, emphasizing instead the relevance of habit, re-traditionalization, and social integration across time. Demonstrating that classical sociology continues to be highly relevant to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences, he revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debate to argue that tradition is the ground of the classic, and the classic something that must prove itself anew in subsequent situations. He uses the work of Durkheim, Simmel and Weber to illustrate this process. Drawing on Archer's account of structure and agency, he makes a parallel distinction between 'classic' and 'canon', allowing us to appreciate the separate qualities of each. This major contribution to the field is essential reading for scholars and students of sociology and social theory. Alan R. How is Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1. The Issue: The Sense of an Ending
Part II. The Wider Context: The Past, the Classic, and the Identity of Sociology
Chapter 2. In Pursuit of Identity: Fragmentation, Conflict and Crisis
Chapter 3. On the Antipathy of Sociology to the Past
Chapter 4. Contested Identity: Sociology in Postmodern Times
Chapter 5. Rethinking Tradition
Part III. Hermeneutics, Tradition, Classic and Canon
Chapter 6. The Hermeneutic Approach
Chapter 7. Hermeneutics, Tradition and the Classic Text
Chapter 8. Canons and Their Discontents.
Part I
Chapter 1. The Issue: The Sense of an Ending
Part II. The Wider Context: The Past, the Classic, and the Identity of Sociology
Chapter 2. In Pursuit of Identity: Fragmentation, Conflict and Crisis
Chapter 3. On the Antipathy of Sociology to the Past
Chapter 4. Contested Identity: Sociology in Postmodern Times
Chapter 5. Rethinking Tradition
Part III. Hermeneutics, Tradition, Classic and Canon
Chapter 6. The Hermeneutic Approach
Chapter 7. Hermeneutics, Tradition and the Classic Text
Chapter 8. Canons and Their Discontents.