1st Edition
Sociological Theory: What went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies
By Nicos Mouzelis
Copyright 1995
236 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social theory is open to many passing currents. Claims to originality tend to thrive and past achievements are often ignored. In Sociologiocal Theory: What Went Wrong? Mouzelis claims that "problems" currently being isolated are not really problems, and that "achievements" claimed are little more than pretensions. He argues that we have been premature to dismiss thinkers from the late 1950s and... Read more
INTRODUCTION 1 Theory as tool and theory as end-product 2 The rise and fall of modem sociological theory 3 Conceptual pragmatism Part I Diagnosis 1 IMPASSES OF MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING: OVERREACTION TO PARSONS 2 RATIONAL-CHOICE THEORIES: FROM MICRO FOUNDATIONS TO REDUCTIONISM 3 POST-STRUCTURALISM: THE DEMISE OF BOUNDARIES Part II Tentative Remedies 4 INSTITUTIONAL AND FIGURATIONAL STRUCTURES: PARSONS AND ELIAS 5 ON THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND FIGURATIONAL STRUCTURES: BRINGING PARSONIAN AND MARXIST SOCIOLOGIES CLOSER TOGETHER 6 THE ‘PARTICIPANT-SOCIAL WHOLE’ ISSUE: PARSONS, BOURDIEU, GIDDENS 7 SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION: A SOCIOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF FUNCTIONALISM CONCLUSION Appendix to the Conclusion: tentative guidelines
Biography
Nicos Mouzelis is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
