This book is a sustained argument for a creative and progressive
social science. Modern social theory, despite an optimistic gloss,
is profoundly pessimistic about social life and social inquiry.
This pessimism is traced to the explanatory failures of social
theory: failures that are shared by apparently disparate schools of
thought. The book traces these similarities across non-Marxist and
Marxist writings and in British, continental European and North
American authors. It also shows the persistence of negative
features over time, tracing cycles of hope to despair in successive
generations.;Specific examples of explanatory problems given
unprogressive treatment are chosen from the mainstream of current
sociology. How the re-definition of categories and processes can
solve these problems progressively is demonstrated. The object is
to turn social science towards the real problems of society whose
creative solution will expand human competence and practical
resources.
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