Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis

Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis PDF

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1317808649

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The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at ‘paradigm revision’.

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Theoretical Logic in Sociology PDF

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 1669

ISBN-13: 1317807057

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This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.

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