Screen LibraryThe 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 sc...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 443 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231203791 0231203799 9780231203784 0231203780 |
| Index Number: | HM585 |
| CLC: | C91-02 |
| Call Number: | C91-02/N532-1 |
| Contents: |
Pragmatist sociology : histories and possibilities / What sociologists should get out of pragmatism / Self-reflection and social responsibility in research : lessons from early pragmatist historical investigations / Problem situation misassessment and the financial crisis / Pragmatism, aesthetics and sociology / Disambiguating Dewey; or why pragmatist action theory neither needs nor asks paradigmatic privilege / Problem solving in action : a Peirceian account / Projective and responsive creativity among on-demand workers / Words versus actions in the network behavior of low-income African Americans / Pragmatism and scientific innovation : lessons for and from the sociology of science / Why do laws need to be practical? The reproduction of cultural variation through pragmatic regulation / Accidental discovery and the pragmatist theory of action : the emergence of a Boston police and black ministers partnership / Pragmatist comparative-historical sociology / American pragmatism and the dilemma of the Negro / The public arena : a pragmatist concept of the public sphere / Finding the future in pragmatist thought : imagination, teleologies, and public deliberation / |