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The Age of the Social - The Discovery of Society and The Ascendance of a New Episteme (Paperback)
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The Age of the Social - The Discovery of Society and The Ascendance of a New Episteme (Paperback)
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The concept of society sui generis - society as a level of reality
which could be studied scientifically - crystallized in the middle
of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim,
Marx and Weber and today, more than at any other period in history,
the idea of the social has gained a foothold in philosophy,
biology, and neuroscience. However, this idea has emerged into
prominence not through the historical or contemporary efforts of
sociologists, but mainly through the efforts of biologists and
neuroscientists. This book seeks to re-establish the credentials of
sociology as the science of society. While acknowledging the
amalgamation of traditional disciplines into interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary networks of research and theory, and championing
interdisciplinarity in recognising the capacity of converging
perspectives to yield more interesting general theories of social
life, the author defends disciplinarity in maintaining sociology's
achievements as a discipline. With chapters on the sociological
world view, imagining society, the self, love, education,
mathematics and religion, The Age of the Social re-states the
importance of sociology as the source of robust ideas about the
social in an age in which this notion has grown in importance. As
such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, with
interests in method and philosophy in the social disciplines.
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