Individualism, holism and the central dilemma of sociological theory

• Main Author: Šubrt, Jiří, 1958- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Subjects: Individualism > Social aspects.; Sociology.; Social Science > Sociology / Social Theory.; Social theory.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787690370 (e-book); 9781787690394 (ePUB)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages)

Individualism and holism, the concepts embedded in the title of this book, represent two key theoretical perspectives that have for many decades steered and shaped sociological thought. For over a century these two interpretative perspective shave also divided sociological theory into two camps, acc...