Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Title | Theoretical Logic in Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520030626 |
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Title | Theoretical Logic in Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1669 |
Release | 2021-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317807057 |
This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.
Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
Title | Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317808819 |
This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points.
Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The modern reconstruction of classical thought: Talcott Parsons
Title | Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The modern reconstruction of classical thought: Talcott Parsons PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Sociology |
ISBN |
Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The classical attempt at theoretical synthesis: Max Weber
Title | Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The classical attempt at theoretical synthesis: Max Weber PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Sociology |
ISBN |
Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons
Title | Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Alexander |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 559 |
Release | 2014-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317808614 |
In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Title | Theoretical Logic in Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
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