Nicholas Gane
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 251468 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Gane |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Gane |
| ASSINATURA | GANE N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8102-6509 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 568 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Gillian Rose and the promise of speculative sociology
While Gillian Rose (1947-95) is acknowledged to be one of the most important social theorists of the late-20th Century, her work continues to exist in a state of relative obscurity. The argument of the present paper is that there are good reasons for returning to Rose's work, and in particular her vision of a speculative sociology. A defining feature of such a sociology, for Rose, is that ethical life begins with the attempt to think what Hegel t…
Capitalism is capitalism, not technofeudalism
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it assesses Yanis Varoufakis' theory of technofeudalism, and will argue, by way of response, that capitalism has not been displaced by a resurgence of feudalism, but is taking new forms that, increasingly, lie outside the powers of nation-states and of social democracy. Second, it questions the 'libertarian Marxist' alternative that Varoufakis proposes in its place, which abdicates any interest in th…
Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism
This is a review of a lecture series by Gillian Rose on Frankfurt School critical theory, which was delivered at the University of Sussex in 1979 and is now published under the title Marxist Modernism, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott
Capitalism, Democracy, and Territorial Forms of Exception
This review article assesses the core arguments of Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism. In this book, Slobodian identifies and analyses territorial forms that are central to the creation of capitalist zones of exception that, to a large extent, sit outside the reach of political democracy: ‘islands’, ‘phyles’, and ‘franchise nations’. This article argues that Slobodian’s analysis of these territorial forms – which have been designed to enable t…
Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation
This article addresses a little-known event in the history of neoliberalism: a conference at Stanford University held in 1982 to reconsider Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means' The Modern Corporation and Private Property 50 years after its initial publication. This event is important as it is where key members of the neoliberal thought collective sought to define and defend the powers and freedoms of the corporation. First, this article outlines the p…
Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism
Given the growing prominence of nudge economics both within and beyond the academy, it is a timely moment to reassess the philosophical and political arguments that sit at its core, and in particular what Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein call libertarian paternalism. The first half of this paper provides a detailed account of the main features of this form of paternalism, before moving, in the second half, to a critical evaluation of the nudge ag…
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges to the neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from the political right. It looks closely at the relation of neoliberalism to conservatism, on one hand, and libertarianism, on the other, in order to address the threat posed to the neoliberal order by paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, lib…
Against a descriptive turn
While description is a valuable aspect of meaningful sociological work, this paper takes issue with Mike Savage's argument that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, should seek to prioritize description over practices of explanation and analysis, and attention to questions of causality. The aim of this paper is not to take issue with descriptive forms of sociology in themselves, but to argue that the answer to the problems identified…
Competition
This article expands Michel Foucault's genealogy of liberalism and neoliberalism by analysing the concept of competition. It addresses four key liberal conceptions of competition in turn: the idea of competition as a destructive but progressive and thus necessary force (roughly 1830-90); economic theories of market equilibrium that theorize competition mathematically (1870 onwards); socio-biological ideas of competition as something natural (1850…
Foucault's History of Neoliberalism
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, there has been renewed interest in thinking critically about the pro-market form of governance known as neoliberalism. Foucault’s 1978-9 lectures at the Collège de France – translated into English under the title The Birth of Biopolitics – have been central to this task. For, in spite of their title, these lectures have no explicit connection to the study of biopolitics, but instead map the emergence of…
The ‘postmodern turn’ in the social sciences
From the mid-1980s through to the mid-1990s, the idea of the postmodern seemed terribly important. Fierce debates raged over the relation of the modern to the postmodern, and whether postmodernism
In and out of neoliberalism
This article reconsiders the work of Raymond Aron in order to explore the fracture lines that existed (and in many ways continue to exist) between conservative forms of political liberalism, as advocated by Aron, and neoliberal ideas of economic or market freedom associated with Hayek and his followers. These tensions between Aron and Hayek are analysed by assessing Aron's involvement in the Mont Pèlerin Society and the Congress for Cultural Free…
Trajectories of Liberalism and Neoliberalism
This review article of The Making of Modern Liberalism and Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics centres on the different trajectories of liberal and neoliberal thought that are mapped out by these two works. It is argued that to achieve an understanding of the meeting points, continuities and discontinuities between liberalism and neoliberalism it is necessary to examine the economic and political bases o…
Thinking Historically about Neoliberalism
This brief response to Will Davies clarifies and expands a number of the core arguments of the article ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism: Thinking through and Beyond Michel Foucault’s Lectures on Biopolitics’ (published in TCS 31(4): 3–27). It is argued that it is a mistake to treat Foucault as a neoliberal because his lectures on biopolitics centred on the emergence of different trajectories of neoliberal reason. Instead, Foucault’s genealogy of n…
The Emergence of Neoliberalism
This paper uses Michel Foucault's lectures on biopolitics as a starting point for thinking historically about neoliberalism. Foucault's lectures offer a rich and detailed account of the emergence of neoliberalism, but this account is far from complete. This paper addresses some of the blind-spots in Foucault's lectures by focusing on the space between the decline of classical liberalism at the end of the 19th century and the subsequent attempt to…
Sociology and Neoliberalism
This article argues that neoliberal thought initially positioned itself in relation to classical sociology by developing an economic epistemology in response, on one hand, to Max Weber's methodological writings, and, on the other, to the positivist sociology of figures such as Auguste Comte. These points of contact between early sociological and neoliberalism are addressed in detail in order to consider the challenges that the latter poses to soc…
Constructions of Neoliberal Reason by Jamie Peck
Markets
The previous chapter explored the uses and limitations of Weber’s ideal-types of capitalism, or more precisely ideal-types of capitalistic profit-making, for thinking sociologically about contemporary capitalist society and culture. The present chapter will extend this work by looking in detail at Weber’s sociology of the market. Weber’s writings on markets have received comparatively little attention in the secondary literature (a notable except…
Method
This chapter focusses on one main aspect of Max Weber’s methodology: concept formation. Ideal-typical concepts were once central to the concerns of Weber scholarship (see Burger, 1976; Oakes, 1988; Drysdale, 1996), and to sociology and the social sciences more generally, but in recent times methodological work on the formation and uses of concepts has fallen into relative neglect (concepts are barely mentioned, for example, by Fritz Ringer in his…
Modernity
In the late-1980s, following the collapse of state socialism and the accompanying decline of Marxist sociology, Weber’s writings on religion, power and culture, began to take centre-stage in sociological debates over the basis of the institutional structures and cultural value-systems that characterise the modern world. Many, in turn, presented Weber as a theorist of ‘modernity’ (see, for example, Whimster and Lash, 1987; Schluchter, 1996; C. Tur…
Capitalism
The analysis of capitalism — including its historical development, its core institutional structures, and its underlying social and cultural logics — was central to the concerns of the classical sociological theory of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel, and to critical sociologies, which were mainly Marxist or Weberian in orientation, that emerged from the mid-20th century onwards. But with the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the late-1980s and the …
Conclusion
The previous chapter used Weber to draw into question the second modern thinking of two prominent contemporary theorists — Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman — and ended with a question that could not be immediately resolved: whether or not concepts of the modern and modernity remain useful devices for pursuing an interpretive and analytical sociology of contemporary capitalism. There are many possible ways of addressing this question. One route woul…
Neoliberalism
The previous two chapters have explored the ways in which Weber’s writings can be used to address the underlying structures and dynamics of contemporary capitalism and the markets which are to be found at its core. This chapter will extend this work by turning to the question of neoliberalism: a political economy which furthers the reach of capitalism by injecting market dynamics, and in particular principles of competition, into the basic fabric…
Class
There is currently a renewed drive within sociology to reposition social class as a category that lies at the heart of the discipline and which ‘continues to count’ (Martin, 2010:1203; see also Crow and Pope, 2008). One striking feature of recent sociological writings on class, however, is that while they often seek to be innovative at the level of method (see, for example, the use of multiple correspondence analysis in Le Roux et al., 2008), the…
C. Wright Mills 50 Years On
This article takes the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American sociologist C. Wright Mills as a cue to revisit his legacy but also the value of sociology today. It argues that the enduring relevance of Mills’ work is his cultivation of a sociological sensibility, which is both an attentive and sensuous craft and also a moral and political project. The article returns to some of the key aspects of Mills’ life and work, and focuses, in partic…
When We Have Never Been Human, What Is to Be Done
This interview reconsiders Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto 21 years after it was first published. It asks what has become of the three boundary breakdowns around which the Manifesto was structured - those between animals and humans, animal-humans (organisms) and machines, and the 'physical and non-physical'. Against this backdrop, this interview examines the connection between the Cyborg Manifesto and Haraway's more recent writings on companion …
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges to the neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from the political right. It looks closely at the relation of neoliberalism to conservatism, on one hand, and libertarianism, on the other, in order to address the threat posed to the neoliberal order by paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, lib…
The Emergence of Neoliberalism
This paper uses Michel Foucault's lectures on biopolitics as a starting point for thinking historically about neoliberalism. Foucault's lectures offer a rich and detailed account of the emergence of neoliberalism, but this account is far from complete. This paper addresses some of the blind-spots in Foucault's lectures by focusing on the space between the decline of classical liberalism at the end of the 19th century and the subsequent attempt to…
Geodemographics, Software and Class
This article examines some of the implications for the sociological analysis of social class of the migration of geodemographic classifications of various sorts into software systems designed to 'sort out' people and places. It begins by offering an overview of the history and development of geodemographic classifications. It then argues that such classifications are increasingly becoming embedded in 'soft-ware sorting' procedures of various sort…
The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism
This paper draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, in particular his lectures on biopolitics at the Collège de France from 1978-79, to examine liberalism and neoliberalism as governmental forms that operate through different models of surveillance. First, this paper re-reads Foucault's Discipline and Punish in the light of his analysis of the art of liberal government that is advanced through the course of these lectures. It is argued that the …
Sociology and Neoliberalism
This article argues that neoliberal thought initially positioned itself in relation to classical sociology by developing an economic epistemology in response, on one hand, to Max Weber's methodological writings, and, on the other, to the positivist sociology of figures such as Auguste Comte. These points of contact between early sociological and neoliberalism are addressed in detail in order to consider the challenges that the latter poses to soc…
Concepts and the 'New' Empiricism
This article examines the role of concepts in the so-called 'new' empiricism that is currently emerging from the writings of Gilles Deleuze. It asks what concepts are, and how they might be put to work to present the 'pure difference' of the empirical world. In addressing these questions, a number of parallels and contrasts are drawn between the writings of Deleuze and Max Weber. It is shown that many of Deleuze's key arguments about concepts- in…
Max Weber as Social Theorist
While Max Weber is commonly treated as a social theorist or a theorist of social stratification, relatively little attention has been paid to the theory of the social that is developed in his work. In view of this, this article turns to Weber's most explicit theorization of the social: the section of Economy and Society entitled 'Class, Status, Party'. In this work, Weber treats class as a non-social form, in contrast to status groups and parties…
Max Weber and Contemporary Capitalism
This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber, a network of concepts can be developed that can fram
Measure, Value and the Current Crises of Sociology
This paper returns to C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination to make an argument about the crisis of sociological method and theory today. Mills' famous text opens with a stinging critique of abstracted empiricism and grand theory on the grounds that they fetishize either methods or concepts. It is argued that Mills' critique can be applied to current sociological practices and thinking. The first part of this paper centres on questions of…
Speed up or slow down? Social theory in the information age
Extreme processes of social and cultural acceleration lie at the heart of the information age but social theory, for the most part, continues to be a slow and patient affair. In view of this, this paper asks how such theory is to respond to the speed-up of social life and culture. Should it attempt to keep pace with a world that is changing faster than ever? Or is the strength of theory that it is a slow, detached and reflective form that lies ou…
Radical Post-humanism
This article uses the work of Friedrich Kittler to address the ways in which media technologies underpin and structure the basis of 'human' existence and understanding. Kittler's 'media materialism' is explored through four main influences: the information theory of Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, the media analysis of Marshall McLuhan, the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault's work on power and discourse. These figures …
Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism
Given the growing prominence of nudge economics both within and beyond the academy, it is a timely moment to reassess the philosophical and political arguments that sit at its core, and in particular what Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein call libertarian paternalism. The first half of this paper provides a detailed account of the main features of this form of paternalism, before moving, in the second half, to a critical evaluation of the nudge ag…
Competition
This article expands Michel Foucault's genealogy of liberalism and neoliberalism by analysing the concept of competition. It addresses four key liberal conceptions of competition in turn: the idea of competition as a destructive but progressive and thus necessary force (roughly 1830-90); economic theories of market equilibrium that theorize competition mathematically (1870 onwards); socio-biological ideas of competition as something natural (1850…
Ubiquitous Surveillance
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory
Chasing the 'Runaway World
This article is a review of the recent work of three of the most prominent and prolific social theorists of today: Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman. The primary focus of this review will be the question of globalization, which has been the subject of recent books by each of these thinkers. It will be argued, however, that the positions taken by Giddens, Beck and Bauman on this question can only be fully understood against the backd…
Max Weber on the Ethical Irrationality of Political Leadership
This paper analyses the ethical basis of Max Weber's theory of political leadership. It (i) expounds the connection between the ethics of conviction and responsibility Weber outlines in Politics as a Vocation and the ideal-types of value and instrumental rationality he defines in Economy and Society, (ii) examines Weber's commitment to a practical reconciliation of these political ethics/action types, (iii) argues that, for Weber, this reconcilia…
Friedrich Kittler
The introduction provides a short outline of Kittler's biographical background and briefly discusses the stages of his work: The initial discourse-analytical stage of the late 1970s that centered primarily on literary text; the media-theoretical stage of the 1980s and early 1990s that focused in particular on electric and electronic media; and a current stage dedicated to rewriting the origin of one the most basic cultural technologies: the alpha…
C. Wright Mills 50 Years On
This article takes the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American sociologist C. Wright Mills as a cue to revisit his legacy but also the value of sociology today. It argues that the enduring relevance of Mills’ work is his cultivation of a sociological sensibility, which is both an attentive and sensuous craft and also a moral and political project. The article returns to some of the key aspects of Mills’ life and work, and focuses, in partic…
A Geography of Global Change
Comparing the office networks of selected global service firms in 2000 with 2001 reveals 1,074 changes. Despite the period being one of world economic slowdown, approximately two-thirds of the changes were expansions. Legal services were the most expansionary; banking/finance and advertising grew the slowest. The geography of these changes is described in two ways. First, regional patterns are examined which show Pacific Asia as the leading growt…
Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism
Against a descriptive turn
While description is a valuable aspect of meaningful sociological work, this paper takes issue with Mike Savage's argument that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, should seek to prioritize description over practices of explanation and analysis, and attention to questions of causality. The aim of this paper is not to take issue with descriptive forms of sociology in themselves, but to argue that the answer to the problems identified…
Posthuman
In and out of neoliberalism
This article reconsiders the work of Raymond Aron in order to explore the fracture lines that existed (and in many ways continue to exist) between conservative forms of political liberalism, as advocated by Aron, and neoliberal ideas of economic or market freedom associated with Hayek and his followers. These tensions between Aron and Hayek are analysed by assessing Aron's involvement in the Mont Pèlerin Society and the Congress for Cultural Free…
Reassessing Foucault
David Armstrong, Guy's Hospital Medical School Nikolas Rose, Goldsmiths' Martin Dinges, Stuttgart Felix Driver, Royal Holloway Dieter Freundlieb, Griffith University, Brisbane, Randall McGowan, University of Oregon Sarah Nettleton, Newcastle Polytechnic
Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism
Max Weber on the Ethical Irrationality of Political Leadership
This paper analyses the ethical basis of Max Weber's theory of political leadership. It (i) expounds the connection between the ethics of conviction and responsibility Weber outlines in Politics as a Vocation and the ideal-types of value and instrumental rationality he defines in Economy and Society, (ii) examines Weber's commitment to a practical reconciliation of these political ethics/action types, (iii) argues that, for Weber, this reconcilia…
Max Weber Revisited
Cet article se penche sur trois parutions recentes consacrees a l'oeuvre de Max Weber : Max Weber and the idea of economic sociology par Richard Swedberg, aborde les aspects saillants de la sociologie economique de Max Weber ; Max Weber, democracy and modernization, Ralph Schroeder (ed.) aborde notamment les vues de Weber sur la democratie et sur le liberalisme nationaliste ; enfin, Max Weber and the culture of anarchy, S. Whimster (ed.), present…
Max Weber Revisited
Ralph Schroeder (ed.), Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, £16.99 paperback, xii+206 pp. (ISBN 0-333-71254-4)Richard Swedberg, Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998, £19.95, x+315 pp. (ISBN 0-691-02949-0)Sam Whimster (ed.) Max Weber and the Culture of Anarchy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999, £17.50 paperback, xii+235 pp. (ISBN 0-333-68227-6)There has been a re…
Zygmunt Bauman
Chasing the 'Runaway World
This article is a review of the recent work of three of the most prominent and prolific social theorists of today: Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman. The primary focus of this review will be the question of globalization, which has been the subject of recent books by each of these thinkers. It will be argued, however, that the positions taken by Giddens, Beck and Bauman on this question can only be fully understood against the backd…
Rationalization and Disenchantment, II
A crucial aspect of the rationalization and disenchantment of the world is the differentiation of modern culture. For Weber, this process accompanies the general movement of nihilism in the West (see Chapter 2), for with the ‘death’ of God worldly values proliferate, separate out and are drawn into endless conflict with one another. This process leads to the formation of a world torn by an infinite number of value-conflicts, for ‘rational’ (scien…
The Value of Instrumental Reason
The rationalization and disenchantment of the world, as outlined in the previous two chapters, is accompanied by the rise of new instrumentally rational forms of this-worldly legitimation (for example, monocratic bureaucracy), and by the differentiation and de-differentiation of modern culture, manifested in the emergence and rationalization of autonomous and conflicting life-orders. The outcome of this movement, is a form of cultural nihilism, f…
Conclusion
The writings of Weber, Lyotard, Foucault and Baudrillard, can be seen to contain a comparable account and critique of the rise, trajectory and nature of modern culture. Weber, to recapitulate, explains the transition to modernity in terms of an ongoing process of rationalization. This process involves the disenchantment of religious forms of legitimation by the claims of ‘rational’ science, and with this the emergence of new forms of domination t…
Weber, Baudrillard and the Erotic Sphere
The previous two chapters addressed the possibility of resistance to the rationalization of the world, first, through analysis of Lyotard’s theory of postmodern science and aesthetics (Chapter 7), and second, through assessment of Foucault’s project of genealogical transfiguration (Chapter 8). The present chapter addresses a further strategy through which such resistance may be possible, namely that of re-enchantment. It is argued that this strat…
The Ethical Irrationality of the World
Max Weber’s vision of the disenchantment of the world is a powerful reminder of the tragic disjunction of scientific ‘progress’ and political freedom. This vision reminds us that the rationalization of the world is not accompanied by a movement towards human happiness, ‘progress’, and freedom, but may in fact preclude the realization of these ideals. The previous chapter analysed one possible route of resistance to this process, namely the pursui…
Weber, Lyotard and the Aesthetic Sphere
The writings of Max Weber and Jean-François Lyotard appear at first glance to lie in radical opposition. The work of Weber, on the one hand, is of a typically modern nature, centring on the power politics of the nation-state, the meaning of social action and the affinity between religious ethics and the rationalization and disenchantment of the world. The work of Lyotard, on the other, became typically postmodern, and attacks modern forms of repr…
Weber, Foucault and the Political Sphere
There are a number of strong similarities between the work of Max Weber and Michel Foucault. These similarities arise primarily from a shared concern for the impact of cultural rationalization upon ‘the leading of life’ ( Lebensführung ), or, more precisely, the bearing of instrumental rationality (for Foucault power/knowledge) on individual freedom. This shared concern, as Colin Gordon (1987) has suggested, is apparent in their respective studie…
Intermediate reflection
Part I analysed Weber’s theory and critique of the rationalization and disenchantment of the world (Chapters 2 and 3), and then two possible routes of resistance to this process, namely the pursuit of science (Chapter 4) and of politics (Chapter 5) as a vocation. The second half of this work explores thematic parallels between Weber’s theory of the rationalization and disenchantment of modernity and the critiques of contemporary (Western) culture…
Rationalization and Disenchantment, I
Max Weber's sociology of religion contains an account of the emergence and development of modern Western culture. This account reads the history of the West in terms of two interconnected processes: the rise and spread of Occidental (instrumental) rationalism (the process of rationalization) and the accompanying dis-enchantment (Entzauberung) of religious superstition and myth.2 More precisely, it treats Western culture as the product of two key …
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory
This thesis analyses the ways in which the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists to enable resistance to the further rationalisation and disenchantment of the world. This research, first, addresses Weber's analysis and critique of …
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory
This book explores thematic parallels between Max Weber's sociology of culture and the critical theories of modernity developed by Lyotard, Foucault and Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three theorists, associated with post-structuralism and postmodernism, respond to Weber's account of the rise, nature and trajectory of modern culture by pursuing transgressive strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three …
Computerized Capitalism
There is currently a tendency in cultural studies literature to analyse new media technologies in isolation from the underlying dynamics of capitalist culture. In response, this paper draws on the work of Jean-François Lyotard to reassert a series of basic connections between technological development and the further extension of capitalist principles into cultural production and exchange. This analysis will treat Lyotard as a key, but neglected,…
A Geography of Global Change
Comparing the office networks of selected global service firms in 2000 with 2001 reveals 1,074 changes. Despite the period being one of world economic slowdown, approximately two-thirds of the changes were expansions. Legal services were the most expansionary; banking/finance and advertising grew the slowest. The geography of these changes is described in two ways. First, regional patterns are examined which show Pacific Asia as the leading growt…
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory
Back to the Future of Social Theory
At any given time, the living see themselves in the midday of history. (Benjamin, 2002: 481) Exciting things can happen during the course of an interview, not least because underpinning critical dialogue is a practice of challenge and counter-challenge, out of which new ideas, perspectives or, at the very least, openings can emerge... (Gane, 2004: 15)
An information age without technology
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicholas GaneNicholas Gane is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University, UK. His publications include Max Weber and Postmodern Theory (Palgrave, 2002) and The Future of Social Theory (Continuum, 2004)
What is ‘Human Society’
Benet Davetian has responded to my recent work on the future of social theory (Gane, 2004; Gane and Beer, 2004) by suggesting that the future of sociology lies in the study of the 'emotional components of human society'. His main argument is that sociology still tends to work with a Cartesian dualism between mind and body, and because of this the 'immutable emotional needs of individuals and their social systems' have tended to slip from view. Da…
Max Weber as Social Theorist
While Max Weber is commonly treated as a social theorist or a theorist of social stratification, relatively little attention has been paid to the theory of the social that is developed in his work. In view of this, this article turns to Weber's most explicit theorization of the social: the section of Economy and Society entitled 'Class, Status, Party'. In this work, Weber treats class as a non-social form, in contrast to status groups and parties…
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