Redefining the situation : the writings of Peter McHugh /

"Peter McHugh (1929-2010) was an internationally known sociologist within the field of anti-positivist social theory. As the only selection of McHugh's sole-authored writings, Redefining the Situation presents a comprehensive yet surprising view of this key theorist's influence in thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bonner, Kieran, 1951- (Editor), Raffel, Stanley (Editor), McHugh, Peter, 1929-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
McHugh, Peter, > 1929-2010.
Sociology.
Sociology
Sociologie.
sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kiernan Bonner and Stanley Raffel
  • Acknowledgments
  • Social disintegration as a requisite of resocialization
  • Structured uncertainty and its resolution: the case of the professional actor
  • On the nature of rule following
  • On the failure of positivism
  • A common sense conception of deviance
  • Confrontation
  • A letter of resignation / Stanley Raffel
  • Making, fragmentation, and the end of endurance
  • Insomnia and the (t)error of lost foundation in postmodernism
  • Shared being, old promises, and the just necessity of affirmative action
  • Note on circulation
  • Intimacy
  • Furthermores on the aesthetic
  • Delicacy, desire, and dream in the work of Peter McHugh: towards a sociology of jouissance / Alan Blum
  • The invention of analysis: "if this is sociology, I want to be in it" / Kiernan Bonner
  • The works of Peter McHugh
  • Index.

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