Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology

Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology
Author: Blasco José Sobrinho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001-07-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1461617219
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Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes—premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization—that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.

Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology

Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology
Author: Blasco José Sobrinho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780847691791
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Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes--premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization--that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.

Cultures of Solidarity

Cultures of Solidarity
Author: Rick Fantasia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1989-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520909674
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A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a young sociologist takes the prevailing assumptions to task and sheds new light upon this very important issue. In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.

Society and Culture

Society and Culture
Author: Bryan S Turner
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412933684
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Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the `cultural turn′ has made the study of society redundant. Sociologists have objected to the rise of cultural studies on the grounds that it produces cultural relativism and lacks a stable research agenda. This book looks at these criticisms and illustrates the relevance of a sociological perspective in the analysis of human practice. The book argues that the classical tradition must be treated as a living tradition, rather than a period piece. It analyzes the fundamental principles of belonging and conflict in society and provides a detailed critical survey of the principal social theories that offer solutions to the challenges of modernism.

Principles of Group Solidarity

Principles of Group Solidarity
Author: Michael Hechter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1988-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 052090897X
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Social scientists have long recognized that solidarity is essential for such phenomena as social order, class, and ethnic consciousness, and the provision of collective goods. In presenting a new general theory of group solidarity, Michael Hechter here contends that it is indeed possible to build a theory of solidarity based on the action of rational individuals and in doing so he goes beyond the timeworn disciplinary boundaries separating the various social sciences.

Social Solidarities

Social Solidarities
Author: Graham Crow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:
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This book explores how people strive to come together & act as a unified force. It considers arguments of those who claim solidarity is increasingly fragile & of those concerned with revitalising solidarities in our unsettled societies.

Classical Sociological Theory

Classical Sociological Theory
Author: Craig Calhoun
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0470655674
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This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current influence on contemporary sociological debate. Explores influential works of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Simmel, Freud, Du Bois, Adorno, Marcuse, Parsons, and Merton Editorial introductions lend historical and intellectual perspective to the substantial readings Includes a new section with new readings on the immediate "pre-history" of sociological theory, including the Enlightenment and de Tocqueville Individual reading selections are updated throughout

Seasonal Sociology

Seasonal Sociology
Author: Tonya K. Davidson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2020
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1487594089
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Seasonal Sociology offers an engrossing and lively introduction to sociology through the seasons, examining the sociality of consumption practices, leisure activities, work, religious traditions, schooling, celebrations and holidays.

The Problem of Solidarity

The Problem of Solidarity
Author: Patrick Doreian
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136647880
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Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage. In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is produced and reproduced, how it is related to social processes, and how such processes can be formalized and create conditions for productively studying their properties. Mathematical models and representations are presented by the authors as a coherent set of tools for understanding many social phenomena.