Rethinking Social Theory
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: March 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780761950691
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Methodology; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: Criticisms of sociology's explanatory and emancipatory failures took a fashionable but often theoretically crude turn (Strinati, 1993) in the 1980s when a number of writers - including postmodern critics such as Baudrillard (1983: 4) and others who will be referred to in the following chapter - rejected efforts to further the intellectual development of sociology as an academic discipline; it was argued that any such efforts are misplaced, and to some it seemed that the future of the discipline itself was in doubt.