Title: The mark of the social : discovery or invention? /
Authors: Greenwood, John D.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Sociology Philosophy
Contents: Introduction: The Mark of the Social / John D. Greenwood -- 1. Concerning Sociality: The Plural Subject as Paradigm / Margaret Gilbert -- 2. A Definition of Social Phenomena for the Social Sciences / Walter L. Wallace -- 3. The Mark of the Social in the Social Sciences / Paul F. Secord -- 4. How Many Kinds of Things Are There in the World? The Ontological Status of Societies / Scott Gordon -- 5. The Nature and Dynamics of 'The Social' among Humans / Jonathan H. Turner -- 6. The Body and the Social / Lloyd E. Sandelands -- 7. Social Explanation / Peter T. Manicas -- 8. The Meaning of 'Social' / Joseph Margolis -- 9. Crews, Clubs, Crowds, and Classes: 'The Social' as a Discursive Category / Rom Harre -- 10. Social Theory in Context: Relational Humanism / Kenneth J. Gergen -- 11. Life beyond the Edge of Nature? Or, The Mirage of Society / Tim Ingold -- 12. The Reversible Imaginary: Baudrillard and the End of the Social / Raymond L.M. Lee.