Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology

Author: Blasco José Sobrinho

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2001-07-17

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 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.

Society and Culture
Society and Culture

Author: Bryan S Turner

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-04-11

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 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.

Social Solidarities
Social Solidarities

Author: Graham Crow

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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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.

Principles of Group Solidarity
Principles of Group Solidarity

Author: Michael Hechter

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988-08-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 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.

Classical Sociological Theory
Classical Sociological Theory

Author: Craig Calhoun

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 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

The Problem of Solidarity
The Problem of Solidarity

Author: Patrick Doreian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 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.

Cultures of Solidarity
Cultures of Solidarity

Author: Rick Fantasia

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-08-18

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 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.

Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies
Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies

Author: Mara A. Yerkes

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-25

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 303093795X

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This textbook will familiarize readers with some of the most pressing solidarity and social justice issues in contemporary societies. Ongoing and emerging inequalities along the lines of gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic background, and sexual orientation challenge the solidarity underlying societies, resulting in complex questions of social justice. Moreover, several global challenges, such as digitalization, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge solidarity and social justice in new ways. How do societies respond to these enduring, growing or changing inequalities? Do these challenges lead to an expansion or an erosion of solidarity, in an 'us versus them' rhetoric? And to what extent do societies differ in their social justice values and hence the acceptance of social inequality? Taking a sociological, psychological, and political philosophical approach to these topics, this book offers state-of-the art theoretical and empirical contributions from globally-recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and political philosophy, providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding solidarity and social justice in response to social inequalities in contemporary European societies.