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Pragmatism and the Americanization of Humanist Sociology
Humanity & Society, 1998L'A. tente de montrer que la theorie sociologique humaniste, contrairement a d'autres theories radicales, a ses racines dans la tradition intellectuelle Americaine, et en particulier dans le Pragmatisme Americain. Il opere notamment une distinction entre la theorie critique developpee par l'Ecole de Francfort et la sociologie humaniste. L'A.
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Pragmatism and the prospects of sociological theory
Journal of Classical Sociology, 2011The paper addresses the recent turn to pragmatism within sociological theory, arguing that, in crucial respects, the ‘new’ pragmatism is at odds with the animating thrust of the ‘old’ pragmatism associated with James, Dewey and Mead. Two tendencies in the new pragmatism are discussed, namely ‘the universal pragmatics’ associated with general theory ...
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Toward a Pragmatic Sociology of the Book
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014This article offers an outline of a pragmatic sociology of the book. Whilst ubiquitous, books have received relatively little attention from sociologists. I propose to remedy this situation by drawing upon the ideas of G.H. Mead, namely his neo-Hegelian theory of the subject-object relationship.
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Towards a more pragmatic sociology of markets
Theory and Society, 2011A satisfactory sociology of markets requires that both order and disorder in markets be addressed, yet sociologists have seemed more concerned with theorizing market stability and order. Change, however, is too fundamental a part of markets to receive so little sociological attention. One perspective that provides a fertile ground for moving ahead with
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The Category of Pragmatic Knowledge in Sociological Analysis *
1984There have been a number of new developments in the methodology of social science. One of them is the emergence of a new field, vaguely called ‘sociological analysis’. The aim of this chapter is to contribute towards a sharper delineation of this field. The present usage of the term is still very uncertain and therefore difficult to summarise.
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Actor-Centered Sociology and the New Pragmatism
2014Theory and research in sociology need to be grounded in the fundamental truth that social phenomena are constituted by the actions and thoughts of socially constituted and socially situated individuals. This truism may be described as “methodological localism.” This does not imply that explanations must proceed from individual to social; but it does ...
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American Sociology and Pragmatism: Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction.
Social Forces, 1982Fred Matthews +2 more
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