The new pragmatist sociology : inquiry, agency, and democracy /
Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism from a distance, through the works of canonical social scientists including George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman and W. E. B. DuBois, rather than the philosophers who founded the school of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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| Summary: | Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism from a distance, through the works of canonical social scientists including George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman and W. E. B. DuBois, rather than the philosophers who founded the school of thought, such as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey and William James. In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism. The book examines questions of methodology, social interaction and politics across the broad themes of inquiry, agency and democracy. Essays engage widely and deeply with topics that motivate both pragmatist philosophy and sociology, including rationality, speech, truth, expertise and methodological pluralism. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231203784 0231203780 9780231203791 0231203799 |