Charles C Lemert
Biographic Data
| ID | 100458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles C Lemert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemert |
| SIGNATURE | LEMERT C C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Capitalism and its Uncertain Future
For decades, Charles Lemert has been the leading voice in social theory. In Capitalism and its Uncertain Future he teams up with one of the most creative emerging social theorists, Kristin Plys, to examine how social theory imagines capitalism. This engaging and innovative book provides new perspectives on well known theorists from Adam Smith, and Frantz Fanon, to Gilles Deleuze, while also introducing readers to lesser known theorists such as Lu…
The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois
This work marks the recent passing of the 100th Anniversary of Du Bois' classic of African American literature. More than fifty events and celebrations were held in cities and universities around the country. It poignantly explores the relationship of Du Bois, the man, to his writings. It is written by expert team of authors including the prominent Manning Marable. The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois explores the relationship of W. E. B. Du Bois' semin…
Souls of W. E. B. du Bois
Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World
"Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World" surveys the history of globalization from the earliest of ancient texts through contemporary debates and the prospects for anticipating the new worlds to come. At the end of the twentieth century, debates over the nature of globalization were unable to agree on a simple resolution, except to say that globalization is economic, political, and cultural all at once. Cultural globalizatio…
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories
Preface PART I: WHAT IS SOCIAL THEORY? Total Destruction, Bead Lust, and Other Unreasonable Social Things Chapter 1: The Impossible Reasons of Modern Civilizations Chapter 2: Social Theory and Modernity's Unthinkable Chapter 3: Social Violence as the Bread Lust of the Unthinkable Chapter 4: Five Ways to Skin a Cat: Modernity's Five Riddles PART II: UNTHINKABLE SOCIAL THINGS Five Solutions to the Riddle of the Defiant Darkness, 1848-1914 Light and…
Postmodernism is Not What You Think
'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives.' -Craig Calhoun, New York University (on the first edition) Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread claim that postmodernism is over. It explains the…
Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action
This book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the increasingly influential ways studied by phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenolog…
Sociology After the Crisis
The crisis-riddled world needs a renewed sociology perhaps even more than it requires economic or political advice. Charles Lemert sees sociology as first and foremost a special type of practical, moral wisdom. Sociology is the way in which individuals try to understand the inner secrets of social life against the embracing structures of the modern world. All professional sociologists build, or ought to build, from this fundamental attempt to tak…
Uncertain Worlds: World-Systems Analysis in Changing Times
The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization Revised Edition
Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic surgery, therapeutic tribulations, instant identity makeovers and reality TV: welcome to life in our increasingly individualized world. In this dazzling book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the ‘new individualism’ generated by global capitalism and develop a major new perspective on people’s emotional experiences of globalization. The New Individualism offers fascina…
Crime and Deviance: Essays and Innovations of Edwin M. Lemert
Chapter 1 Crime and Deviance Part 2 Foundation and Evolution of Societal Reaction Theory Chapter 3 The Paradigm Emerges: From Social Pathology to Deviance Chapter 4 The Paradigm Forms: Societal Reaction, Differentiation, and Individuation Chapter 5 Majesty in Decay: The Paradigm Reaches Its Limits Chapter 6 Choice, Value, and Action: Social Problems and General Social Theory Chapter 7 Labeling: Some Persistent Problems Chapter 8 Family Resemblanc…
Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory.Ben Agger
Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World
The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
Michel Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression
The Way of the Masks
Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression
French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968
Michel Foucault. Social Theory and Transgression
Looks at the works of Michel Foucault, who was a professor of the history of systems of thought at the College de France, who wrote on topics such as literature, philosophy, history, sociology, politics, medicine and semiotics.
Beyond Structuralisms
French Sociology. Rupture and Renewal Since 1968
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
Theorizing, Policy Making, and the Critique of Europeanism
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
A critique of modern sociological theory, this brilliant new work rather than announcing the twilight of man accepts the event both as an intellectual conclusion and an empirical fact, and proceeds systematically to examine the alternatives beyond the Weber-Durkheim-Parsons episteme.Addressing himself to the issues of pluralism in sociological theory, Lemert rigorously examines representative writings of important theorists in America and Europe,…
Sociology After the Crisis
The crisis-riddled world needs a renewed sociology perhaps even more than it requires economic or political advice. Charles Lemert sees sociology as first and foremost a special type of practical, moral wisdom. Sociology is the way in which individuals try to understand the inner secrets of social life against the embracing structures of the modern world. All professional sociologists build, or ought to build, from this fundamental attempt to tak…
Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology
Recent literature documenting the necessary relationship among the concept of social structures, the practice of measurement, and the nature of sociological language is reviewed. Structuralist semiotics (with special reference to Saussure) is used a resource for examining the deficiencies of both formalist and interpretativist positions on these relationship. Structural explanation is described as an alternative. Umberto Eco's idea of a semantic …
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
A critique of modern sociological theory, this brilliant new work rather than announcing the twilight of man accepts the event both as an intellectual conclusion and an empirical fact, and proceeds systematically to examine the alternatives beyond the Weber-Durkheim-Parsons episteme.Addressing himself to the issues of pluralism in sociological theory, Lemert rigorously examines representative writings of important theorists in America and Europe,…
Sociological Theory and the Relativistic Paradigm
Sociological theory is compared to the relativist paradigm which is found in a variety of contemporary intellectual movements: microphysics, drama, theology, art, music and psychology. The principal elements in the relativist paradigm are: (1) complementarity; (2) indeterminacy: (3) relativity. In contrast to this thought pattern, the apparent pluralism represented in the strict, hermeneutical, and critical schools of sociological theory is shown…
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression
Social Structure and the Absent Center: An Alternative to New Sociologies of Religion
The new sociology of religion (Bellah, Berger, Luckmann, Fenn, among others) has made little progress because of its failure to consider the metatheoretical aspect of its various sociological proposals. There are, metatheoretically, two classic problems: the tension between the personal and the social structural dimensions of social action and the problem of meaning . The new sociologists of religion share an ambivalence with respect to social st…
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
Defining Non-Church Religion
Cultural Multiplexity and Religious Polytheism
Les recherches récentes en sociologie de la religion n'ont pas accordé une attention suffisante à l'impact des conditions socio-culturelles sur l'idéation religieuse. Le problème est re pris par l'Auteur et analysé du point de vue de la sociologie de la religion comprise comme forme particulière de la socio logie de la connaissance. Pour l'Auteur, la place centrale du monothéisme dans l'idéation religieuse traditionnelle occidentale doit être mis…
Sociological Theory and the Relativistic Paradigm
Sociological theory is compared to the relativist paradigm which is found in a variety of contemporary intellectual movements: microphysics, drama, theology, art, music and psychology. The principal elements in the relativist paradigm are: (1) complementarity; (2) indeterminacy: (3) relativity. In contrast to this thought pattern, the apparent pluralism represented in the strict, hermeneutical, and critical schools of sociological theory is shown…
Social Structure and the Absent Center: An Alternative to New Sociologies of Religion
The new sociology of religion (Bellah, Berger, Luckmann, Fenn, among others) has made little progress because of its failure to consider the metatheoretical aspect of its various sociological proposals. There are, metatheoretically, two classic problems: the tension between the personal and the social structural dimensions of social action and the problem of meaning . The new sociologists of religion share an ambivalence with respect to social st…
Defining Non-Church Religion
A Sociology of Belief
Theorizing, Policy Making, and the Critique of Europeanism
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
A critique of modern sociological theory, this brilliant new work rather than announcing the twilight of man accepts the event both as an intellectual conclusion and an empirical fact, and proceeds systematically to examine the alternatives beyond the Weber-Durkheim-Parsons episteme.Addressing himself to the issues of pluralism in sociological theory, Lemert rigorously examines representative writings of important theorists in America and Europe,…
Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology
Recent literature documenting the necessary relationship among the concept of social structures, the practice of measurement, and the nature of sociological language is reviewed. Structuralist semiotics (with special reference to Saussure) is used a resource for examining the deficiencies of both formalist and interpretativist positions on these relationship. Structural explanation is described as an alternative. Umberto Eco's idea of a semantic …
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory
Michel Foucault. Social Theory and Transgression
Looks at the works of Michel Foucault, who was a professor of the history of systems of thought at the College de France, who wrote on topics such as literature, philosophy, history, sociology, politics, medicine and semiotics.
Beyond Structuralisms
French Sociology. Rupture and Renewal Since 1968
Michel Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression
The Way of the Masks
Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression
French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology
Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World
Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory.Ben Agger
Crime and Deviance: Essays and Innovations of Edwin M. Lemert
Chapter 1 Crime and Deviance Part 2 Foundation and Evolution of Societal Reaction Theory Chapter 3 The Paradigm Emerges: From Social Pathology to Deviance Chapter 4 The Paradigm Forms: Societal Reaction, Differentiation, and Individuation Chapter 5 Majesty in Decay: The Paradigm Reaches Its Limits Chapter 6 Choice, Value, and Action: Social Problems and General Social Theory Chapter 7 Labeling: Some Persistent Problems Chapter 8 Family Resemblanc…
The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization Revised Edition
Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic surgery, therapeutic tribulations, instant identity makeovers and reality TV: welcome to life in our increasingly individualized world. In this dazzling book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the ‘new individualism’ generated by global capitalism and develop a major new perspective on people’s emotional experiences of globalization. The New Individualism offers fascina…
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories
Preface PART I: WHAT IS SOCIAL THEORY? Total Destruction, Bead Lust, and Other Unreasonable Social Things Chapter 1: The Impossible Reasons of Modern Civilizations Chapter 2: Social Theory and Modernity's Unthinkable Chapter 3: Social Violence as the Bread Lust of the Unthinkable Chapter 4: Five Ways to Skin a Cat: Modernity's Five Riddles PART II: UNTHINKABLE SOCIAL THINGS Five Solutions to the Riddle of the Defiant Darkness, 1848-1914 Light and…
Postmodernism is Not What You Think
'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives.' -Craig Calhoun, New York University (on the first edition) Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread claim that postmodernism is over. It explains the…
Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action
This book-never before published-is eminent sociologist Harold Garfinkel's earliest attempt, while at Harvard in 1948, to bridge the growing gap in American sociology. This gap was generated by a Parsonian paradigm that emphasised a scientific approach to sociological description, one that increasingly distanced itself from social phenomena in the increasingly influential ways studied by phenomenologists. It was Garfinkel's idea that phenomenolog…
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