Table of Contents
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Chapter One: Introduction
Why The Social?
Why Postmarxism?
Why Postmarxism and Social capital
Chapter Two: From the Social to the Political
Introduction
The Social in Historical Materialism
Setting out a Post- Terrain
Sociology and The Social in Postmarxism
Counter-Positions of The Social
Chapter Three: Classical Approaches to The Social
Introduction
The Sociological project and the Emergence of Positivism
Karl Marx: Logic to Contradiction to Mediation
Emile Durkheim: Moral Positivism and Mediation
Max Weber: From Rationality to Irrationality as Social Mediation
Chapter Four: Establishing a Basis for Postmarxism
Introduction
The New Priority
The Social as ‘Sedimentation’ and The Political as ‘Reactivation’
Chapter Five: From Antagonism to Equivalence
Introduction
Antagonism as the Limit of Social Objectivity
"You Can Only Free Somethings …": Hegemony and The Political
Hegemony and the Constitution of Equivalence
Chapter Six: Finding The Political in Social Capital
Introduction
What is Social Capital?
Forms of Social Capital
Social Capital and The Political
Chapter Seven: Desert - Migration as Social Dislocation
Introduction
Quantity and Composition of Global Migration
Migration and (Post)Industrialisation
Foundational Approaches to Migration
Definitional Problematics
Causation Theories
Continuation Theories
Postmarxism and Migration
Chapter Eight: Aspiration – Hegemonic Masculinity as Emptiness
Introduction
Gender Antagonism in the Modernity-Postmodernity Tens
Biography
Richard Howson is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Wollongong
The Sociology of Postmarxism is a pleasure to read, at least for this reader. It combines careful, concise and generic analysis of the relations of marxism, materialism and discourse with an opening up of specific avenues, such as, social capital, migration, and men and masculinities, to the insights of postmarxist approaches in sociology. In so doing, it delivers a profound critique and challenge to Sociology itself, both mainstream and critical, and its mystifications of "society".Jeff Hearn, Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK
