The Centrality of sociality : responses to Michael E. Brown's The concept of the social in uniting the social sciences and the humanities

What do we mean by the word "social?" In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown. The Centrality of Sociality provides analyses of important distinctions between ind...

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Other Authors Halley, Jeffrey A. (Editor), Dahms, Harry F. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v. 39.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781802623635
DOI10.1108/S0278-1204202339
Physical Description1 online resource (344 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is human about human affairs? / Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms
  • Chapter 1. Consciousness and crisis: Durkheim, marx, spinoza and revolutionary vs reactionary spirit today / Roslyn Wallach Bologh
  • Chapter 2. The uncertainties of the social / Jean-Louis Fabiani
  • Chapter 3. Brown on sociality and the social / Peter K. Manning
  • Chapter 4. Brown's "the course of activity": Non-repeatability, the avant-garde, and temporality / Jeffrey A. Halley
  • Chapter 5. The concept of sociality in the literary criticism of georg lukács, lucien goldmann and theodor w. Adorno / Daglind E. Sonolet
  • Chapter 6. In defense of the social: Convergences and divergences between the humanities and social sciences in the United States / Harry F. Dahms
  • Chapter 7. The ontology of the social as a theory of social forms / Michael J. Thompson
  • Chapter 8. Other voices: The concept of heteroglossia in michael e. Brown's concept of the social in uniting the humanities and social sciences / Allen Dunn
  • Chapter 9. Conceptual implications in social sciences for inquiring into the social. Insights from michael e. Brown's the concept of the social in uniting the social sciences and humanities / Ilaria Riccioni
  • Chapter 10. Theorizing, bounded rationality, and expertise: Cognitive sociology and the quasi-realism of problem-solving as a course of activity / Michael W. Raphael
  • Chapter 11. Response: What is distinctively human about human affairs: Sociality and the question of society / Michael E. Brown.