Post-Philosophical Sociology Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

Summary

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

Product details

• Authors: Richard (University of Leeds Kilminster, Richard Kilminster, Kilminster Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781032045252
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204525-2
• Pages: 228
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Historiography, Society and culture: general, process theory, figurational sociology, developmental social theory, sociological psychology, involvement and detachment, critique in social sciences, contemporary sociological diagnosis