Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead

Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead
ISBN-10
1783083689
ISBN-13
9781783083688
Category
Social Science
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2014-12-01
Publisher
Anthem Press
Author
Michael Halewood

Description

According to some social theorists, we are ‘at the end of the social’. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by ‘the social’. ‘Rethinking the Social’ is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber. It examines how the concept of the social became unproblematic for twentieth-century writers and suggests that debates surrounding this concept remain very much alive. Building on A. N. Whitehead’s work, Halewood develops a novel ‘philosophy of the social’.

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