Explaining Social Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explaining Social Life write by John Parker. This book was released on 2017-09-16. Explaining Social Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This distinctive text makes social theory accessible to and usable by students. Whereas social theory is often seen as abstract, esoteric and separate from our understanding of the social world, here it is shown to be a flexible and practical resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomena. This expanded and updated second edition actively encourages readers to develop and practice their own capacities for social explanation: - Providing readers with a powerful 'tool kit' of five social theoretical concepts – Individuals, Nature, Culture, Action and Social Structure – that are fundamental to social explanation; - Drawing on a historically and geographically wide range of examples of social phenomena to show how these theoretical concepts operate and why they're important; - Offering end of chapter questions that enable readers to put theory into practice and begin theorising for themselves. Explaining Social Life is ideal for anyone interested in social theory, including students of sociology, anthropology and related social sciences - both those engaging with social theory for the first time, and more advanced students looking to build upon their understanding.
Introduction to Sociology 2e
Introduction to Sociology 2e - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Sociology 2e write by Nathan J. Keirns. This book was released on 2015-03-17. Introduction to Sociology 2e available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.
Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory)
Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory) write by Peter Halfpenny. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment social philosophers who were eager to develop an empirical science of society that would enable them to control social conduct – just as the physical sciences had provided the knowledge to tame nature. Yet every debate about the relation between positivism and sociology is clouded by the diversity of uses of the term 'positivism' – uses that are so varied that some can pronounce positivism dead while others find it still the vital force that dominates sociology. The particular merit of Peter Halfpenny's book is that it makes this diversity of uses its central theme. In order to provide a clear basis from which to assess controversial questions about the contribution of the positivist traditions to sociology, the book reviews twelve different important uses of the term 'positivism' that have emerged at different times since the mid-nineteenth century, when Auguste Comte coined both 'positivism' and 'sociology'. This review is conducted by examining the historical development of the two independent roots of modern sociological positivism – positivist philosophy and statistics – and by analysing logical positivist philosophy, which in many ways defined the course of twentieth century philosophy of the social (as well as the natural) sciences.
Reshaping Social Life
Reshaping Social Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reshaping Social Life write by Sarah Irwin. This book was released on 2005. Reshaping Social Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.
The Social Construction of Reality
The Social Construction of Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Construction of Reality write by Peter L. Berger. This book was released on 2011-04-26. The Social Construction of Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
