Sociology of Hope

A New Theory
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-06036-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the ‘state of the art’ of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women, and to the reconstruction of the contributions of the theories of revolution, utopia, social change and collective action.

In an attempt to understand the sociology of hope as a critical theory and a science of life, this book proposes the central elements in theoretical and epistemic terms for establishing connections between ethics, aesthetics, politics of knowledge and their current strong modi-fications in the study of society. As such the book will appeal to scholars and students inter-ested in emotions, particularly from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political sci-ence, and psychology.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scribano, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Introduction Reasons, itineraries and journey

1. Theoretical and Empirical Background for a Sociology of Hope

2. Hope in the Classics of Sociology

3. Hope in Latin American Social Theory

4. Women and Hope: Between political engagement and the social sciences.

5. In the footsteps of revolution as the theoretical origin of the Sociology of Hope.

6. Theories of Utopia as a platform for Hope

7. Social Change, Sociology, and Hope

8. Collective action as hopeful practices

9. From Love to Hope

10. Sociology of Hope and the Humanities as a Science of Life

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Scribano is Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Studies (CIES estudiosociologicos.org) and Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technological Research Council, Argentina. He is also the Director of the Latin American Journal of Studies on Bodies, Emotions and Society and the Study Group on Sociology of Emotions and Bodies, in the Gino Germani Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. He also serves as Coordinator of the 26 Working Group on Bodies and Emotions of the Latin American Association of Sociology (ALAS) and as Vice-President of the Working Group ‘Society and Emotions’ of the International Sociological Association (ISA).