The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences.
In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand th...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs?; I. Sociality: The Problem of Definition; 1. The Urgency of Defining the Social; 2. Society as a Basic Fact; 3. Dependence and Autonomy; 4. The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact; 5. The Sociality of Agency; 6. Models, Theory, and Theorizing; 7. Theorizing; 8. Historicism and Its Alternative; 9. Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes; II. Social Action; 10. Can "the Social" Be a Proper Object of Theory?; 11. Further Problems in Theorizing the Social; 12. Social Action as Action; 13. The Self of the Actor.
- 14. Self and Situation15. Self and Agency; 16. Social Action Reconsidered; III. Subjects and Situations; 17. Overview; 18. Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences; 19. Objects and Their Subjects; 20. The Positive Sense of "Situation"; 21. Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity; 22. Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation; 23. Criticism and Human Affairs; 24. Collective Enunciation; 25. Subjectivity and Objectivity; 26. Summary, Reprise, and Transition; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index.
