Romano The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis

Challenging the Phantom of Liberty
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-96249-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved faster than reality and its ruling models, ensuring a dynamic equilibrium during modernity. Despite any dramatic social crisis, theory has always provided exit routes. The tragedy of current crisis lies in the fact that its social implications are exasperated by the absence of alternative views. This book identifies the causes of this mismatch between thought and reality, and illustrates a way out.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romano, Onofrio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Horizontality and Verticality: The Criss-Cross Alternation Law 2. The Self-Regulating Market and the Golden Age of Sociology (1815-1929) 3. The Golden Age of the State and the Re-Conquest of Immanence (1930-1980) 4. The Rise and Fall of Neo-Horizontalism (1981-2008) 5. The Paradigm Delay 6. In Search of Verticalism

Über Autor(innen)

Onofrio Romano is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bari.