Divining the Future of Social Theory
From Theology to Rhetoric Via Social Epistemology
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2398536 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Fuller (0000-0002-2190-6552, Durham University, autor de correspondencia), Steve Fuller |
| Año | 1998 |
| Volumen | 1 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 107-126 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136843198001001008 |
| OpenAlex | W2170898648 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 29 |
The fertility of contemporary social theory is matched only by its problematic relationship to its past. The future of social theory therefore lies with a renegotiation of that relationship. I begin by unearthing the theological origins of theorizing and its secularization as epistemology in the 19th century. I then provide an account of the recent renaissance in social theory - epitomized by the various 'structure-agency' debates - that reveals its intellectual kinship to scholastic theology. I diagnose this scholasticism in terms of sociology's current social exigencies and conclude that the historiography of sociology implicit in scholasticism needs to be overturned so that social theorists may come to recover the concrete social contexts that historically have called forth the need to theorize
Epistemology · Historiography · Kinship · Scholasticism · Secularization · Social science · Social theory · Social thought · Sociology · Structure and agency · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
Visions of the sociological tradition
Persecution and the Art of Writing
D arwin's D angerous I dea
Knowledge and social imagery
Structure of Social Action
The coming crisis of western sociology
A sociology of sociology.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Ideology and Utopia
Metatheorizing in sociology
Communication and the Evolution of Society
Philosophy of science and its discontents
Knowledge and Human Interests
The Moral Dimension
The Alienated Mind
Social Theory and Social Structure
Scientists as Historians
Toward a Philosophy of Science Accounting
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
A Plague on Both Your Houses
Central Problems in Social Theory
The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology
Karl Mannheim
The Sociology of Sociology
Is there Life for Sociological Theory after the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,19 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1999 - 2011 (13) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |