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Pragmatic Humanism - On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Pragmatic Humanism - On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our
ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and
responsibilities? If so, to what-or perhaps to whom-are these
responsibilities? Installing humanity as its epistemological and
normative start and endpoint, this book shows how humanism recasts
sociology as an activity that does not merely do things, or effect
things, but is also self-consciously for something. Rather than
resurrecting problematic classical conceptions of humanism, the
book instead constructs its arguments on pragmatic grounds, showing
how a pragmatic humanism presents an improved picture of both the
nature and value of the discipline. This picture is based less
around the claim that sociology is capable of providing
authoritative revelations about society, and more upon its capacity
to offer representations of the social in epistemologically open,
transformative, ethical, and hopeful ways. Ultimately, it argues
that sociology's real value can only be disclosed by replacing its
image as a discipline aimed towards disinterested social
enlightenment with one of itself as a practice both dependent upon,
and at its best self-consciously aimed towards, human ends and
imperatives. It will appeal to scholars and students across the
social sciences, and to those working in social theory, sociology,
and philosophy of the social sciences in particular.
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