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PRAGMATISM IN MODERN SOCIOLOGY

Pragmatism (Greek, prͮgma, gender pragmanos, action), an movement of American philosophy that treats human thinking, scientific and philosophical knowledge as forms of activity aimed at achieving practical results. Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that emphasizes practicality and usefulness, which originated in the United States at the end of the
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Pragmatism and the Americanization of Humanist Sociology

Humanity & Society, 1998
L'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, 2011
The 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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Pragmatism and Sociology

2020
Claude Gautier, Emmanuel Renault
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The Category of Pragmatic Knowledge in Sociological Analysis *

1984
There 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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Justification work: The homeless workers’ movement and the pragmatic sociology of dissent in Brazil’s crisis

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2018
V. Albert, M. Davidenko
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On Justification and Critique: Luc Boltanski’s Pragmatic Sociology and International Relations

, 2016
Frank Gadinger
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Justice in reality: overcoming moral relativism in Luc Boltanski’s pragmatic sociology of critique

, 2018
J. Jensen
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Attachments to the common-place: pragmatic sociology and the aesthetic cosmopolitics of eco-house design in Kyoto, Japan

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2015
A. Blok
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Actor-Centered Sociology and the New Pragmatism

2014
Theory 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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