Summary
Contents
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This book situates sociology in its historical, philosophical and theological contexts and examines how the founders of the discipline developed competing analyses of the processes elementary to social and moral life through their distinctive sociological contributions. Surveying a range of sociological analyses from Comte to feminism, postmodernism and rational choice theory, this book examines the various attempts that have been made to reconstruct the discipline over the last century, and the challenges facing it today. Individual chapters examine `Human Sociology', `Sacred Sociology', `Tragic Sociology', `Heroic Sociology' and `Normative Sociology'. The book moves on to discuss post-classical thought, and the attempted reconstruction o
Conflict Sociology
Conflict Sociology
Introduction
If the Parsonian concern with values, norms, and roles left an indelible mark on the discipline, so too did the emergence of ‘conflict sociology’. This focus on conflict developed during the 1960s and 1970s and constituted, in part, a direct reaction against Parsonian orthodoxy. It was also associated with a far wider cross-disciplinary concern with conflict that drew on the ‘critical theory’ of the Frankfurt School, on the writings of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, and on radical political economy.1 For all their differences, these perspectives represented the most significant growth of intellectual interest in conflict since the writings of Marx. In the case of sociology, their aim was to offer a radical departure from the classical sociological concern with consensual social and ...
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