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Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism

Author : Edmond Cros
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816615802
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism written by Edmond Cros and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Edmond Cros is a leading French Hispanicist whose work is unique in Continental theory because it brings Spanish and Mexican texts into current literary debates, which have so far centered mainly on the French and German traditions. Equally distinctive is the nature of his work, which Cros terms sociocriticism. Unlike most sociological approaches to literature, which leave the structure of texts untouched, sociocriticism aims to prove that the encounter with "ideological traces," and with antagonistic tensions between social classes, is central to any reading of texts. Cros's method distinguishes between the "semiotic and "ideological" elements within a text, and involves the patient, exacting reconstruction of the concrete text from these elements, a process that enables the sociocritic to interpret its fault lines, its internal contradictions - in the end , its irreducibly social nature. As its title suggests, Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism is structured in two parts. Its opening chapters analyze sociological theories of discourse, including those of Foucault, Bakhtin, and Goldman; in the second part, Cros applies theory to practice in readings of specific works: the film Scarface, contemporary Mexican poetry and prose (Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes), and the picaresque novel of the Spanish Golden Age. In their foreword, Jurgen Link and Ursula Link-Heer differentiate sociocriticism from other social approaches to literature and show how Cros's method works in specific textual readings. They emphasize his resistance to the reductive modes and "misreadings" that dominate much of contemporary theory. Edmond Cros is a professor of literary theory and Hispanic studies at the Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier, France, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Jurgen Link teaches at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and Ursula Link-Heer at the Universitat Siegen, both in West Germany.

Writing the Social

Author : Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802081353
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Social written by Dorothy E. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays based on Smith's unique rebel sociology. Smith turns wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, and popular culture to inquire directly into the actualities of peoples' lives.

Sociocriticism

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sociocriticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vitality of Critical Theory

Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857247972
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Vitality of Critical Theory written by Harry F. Dahms and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today, if not more so, as it was at its inception during the 1930s. This title looks at the distinguishing features of this tradition and how it is critical, yet also complementary, of other approaches in the social sciences, especially in sociology.

Ralf Dahrendorf

Author : Olaf Kühne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030442965
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Ralf Dahrendorf written by Olaf Kühne and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory. This book presents the first synthesis of his extensive oeuvre in English. Dahrendorf's political commitment was driven largely by his desire to maximize life chances, thus contributing to the further development of liberalism. In the tradition of Karl Popper, his work in all areas was aimed at defending the open society, and he saw conflicts, if they were settled, as being suitable in principle for contributing to social progress. This book provides insights into the various methodological and theoretical aspects and critiques of Ralf Dahrendorf's work, as well as his reflections on the position of sociology in the system of sciences and in relation to political practice. The current crisis of liberal politics has made Dahrendorf’s work more relevant than ever, and this overview will be of great interest to students and researchers across sociology, political science, political ideologies and European integration.

Critical Social Theory

Author : Tim Dant
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954798
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Critical Social Theory written by Tim Dant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory has left an indelible mark on postwar social thought. But what are the relations between critical theory and 'the cultural turn'? This text demonstrates the origins of critical theory in the Marxian analysis of the capitalist mode of production and Freudian psychoanalysis.

Critical Theory of Society

Author : Albrecht Wellmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory of Society written by Albrecht Wellmer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Critical Sociology

Author : George N. Katsiaficas
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 : 9780829015959
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Critical Sociology written by George N. Katsiaficas and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1987 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism

Author : Jeffrey L. Sammons
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism written by Jeffrey L. Sammons and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Foundations of the Social

Author : Simon Susen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905622122
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of the Social written by Simon Susen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808827
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points.

On Critique

Author : Luc Boltanski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683533
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book On Critique written by Luc Boltanski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in the discipline today: the critical sociology that was developed in its most elaborate form by Pierre Bourdieu, and the pragmatic sociology of critique developed by Luc Boltanski and his associates. In critical sociology, description in terms of power relations underscores the potency of mechanisms of oppression, the way the oppressed passively endure them, going so far in their alienation as to adopt the values that enslave them. Pragmatic sociology, by contrast, describes the actions of human beings who rebel but who are endowed with reason. It stresses their ability, in certain historical conditions, to rise up against their domination and construct new interpretations of reality in the service of critical activity. In this major new book Boltanski develops a framework that makes it possible to reconcile these seemingly antagonistic approaches - the one determinist and assigning the leading role to the enlightening science of the sociologist, the other concerned to stick as closely as possible to what people say and do. This labour of unification leads him to rework central notions such as practice, institution, critique and, finally, ‘social reality,' all with the aim of contributing to a contemporary renewal of practices of emancipation.

Rethinking Sociology

Author : Irving M. Zeitlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788170330417
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Sociology written by Irving M. Zeitlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fin de Siècle Social Theory

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840917
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Fin de Siècle Social Theory written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siècle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason. In response there emerged the profound skepticism about rationality that has so starkly defined the present fin de siècle. From Wittgenstein through Rorty and postmodernism, relativism rejects the very possibility of universal standards, while for both positivism and neo-Marxists like Bourdieu, reductionism claims that ideas simply reflect their social base. In a readable and spirited argument, Alexander develops the alternative of a "neo-modernist" position that defends reason from within a culturally centered perspective while remaining committed to the goal of explaining, not merely interpreting, contemporary social life. On the basis of a sweeping reinterpretation of postwar society and its intellectuals, he suggests that both antimodernist radicalism and postmodernist resignation are now in decline; a more democratic, less ethnocentric and more historically contingent universalizing social theory may thus emerge. Developing in his first two studies a historical approach to the problem of "absent reason," Alexander moves via a critique of Richard Rorty to construct his case for "present reason." Finally, focusing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he provokes the most sustained critical reflection yet on this influential thinker. Fin de Siecle Social Theory is a tonic intervention in contemporary debates, showing how social and cultural theory can properly take the measure of the extraordinary times in which we live.

Critical Sociology

Author : Paul Connerton
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Critical Sociology written by Paul Connerton and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1976 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism

Author : Norma R.A. Romm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349121312
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism written by Norma R.A. Romm and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the methodological principles which underlie sociologists' study of social reality, this text offers clarification and outlines how the different approaches to study originate from various methodogical and philosophical traditions.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079922
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.