Processual Sociology /

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world-both...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abbott, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Temas:
Becoming (Philosophy) - Social aspects.
Becoming (Philosophy) > Social aspects.
Change > Social aspects.
Ontology > Social aspects.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Sociology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sociology > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
sociology, social world, chicago school, history, individuals, groups, human nature, time, determination, order, science, morality, normativism, nonfiction, becoming, ontology, ethics, excess, outcome, inequality, actor, sequence, ecology, causal reasoning, cause and effect, free will, scarcity, historiography, masses, reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1
  • 1 The Historicality of Individuals
  • 2 Human Nature in Processual Thinking
  • 3 Linked Ecologies
  • Part 2
  • 4 Lyrical Sociology
  • 5 The Problem of Excess
  • Part 3
  • 6 The Idea of Outcome
  • 7 Social Order and Process
  • Part 4
  • 8 Inequality as Process
  • 9 Professionalism Empirical and Moral
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index

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