For Social Theory

Theorists often point to social theory's normativity, but Gouldner's later works provide the most explicit, comprehensive treatment of it as post-traditional normative discourse – a practice distinct from sociology and sociological theory, yet linked historically and analytically to them. His argument about the need for a discourse space to debate social science's normative directions and to strengthen its connections to civil society is relevant today. Because Gouldner's approach has gaps and is somewhat fragmented I will reconstruct his argument about social theory per se. Although I point to problems that derive from his incomplete pragmatic turn, his approach offers an excellent departure point for discussing the meaning of social theory

Epistemology · Linguistics · Normative · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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  Open Access•R J Antonio•The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to…•2011

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• How social science is impossible without critical theory

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• Nature, knowledge and negation

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• Is Prosumer Capitalism on the Rise

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• After Neoliberalism

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• Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

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• Experience and nature.

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• Science as a Vocation

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• The system of modern societies.

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• A defence of history and class consciousness

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• Structure of Social Action

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• The coming crisis of western sociology

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• Marx's Fate

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• Postmodern anxiety

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• Bobos in Paradise

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• Theory and Progress in Social Science

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• The Two Marxisms

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• The Dialectical Imagination

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• In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities

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• Max Weber and Democratic Politics

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• Handbook of Social Theory

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• The decomposition of sociology

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• Dewey and the Project of Critical Social Theory

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• The epistemic turn

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• Thoughts onvisions and its creation

  Open Access•Donald N Levine•Sociological Forum•1996

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• The future of Eurocommunism

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• Alvin W. Gouldner

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• Why socialism failed

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• Recruitment into the Eastern European Communist Elite

  Open Access•Eric Hanley, Donald J Treiman•Research in Social Stratification…•2005

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• Alvin W. Gouldner

  Open Access•MauriceR Stein•Theory and Society•1982

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• Pragmatism & Sociology

  Open Access•Steven Seidman•Sociological Quarterly•1996

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• Creative disorder

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• The Sociological Imagination

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• Communication and the Evolution of Society

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• Critical Social Theory

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• The Cosmopolitan Self

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• The Frankfurt School

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• The Neoconservatives

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• The Moral Commonwealth

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• The Twilight of Common Dreams

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• Stalinism

  Alvin W Gouldner•Telos•1977

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• The Crisis of One-Dimensionality

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• For Sociology

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• Postmodern Populism

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• Reason and Revolution

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• The Quest for Certainty

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• Logic

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• A Party of Workers or a Party of Intellectuals? Recruitment into Eastern European Communist Parties, 1945-1988

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• Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory

  Elliot L Jurist, Elliot Jurist et al.•The Journal of Philosophy•1989

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• Sociological theory

  Open Access•Janet Saltzman Chafetz•The American Sociologist•1993

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• A note on Marx and Weber in Gouldner's thought

  Open Access•Dennis H Wrong, DennisH Wrong•Theory and Society•1982

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• G. H. Mead, Socialism, and the Progressive Agenda

  D N Shalin•American Journal of Sociology•1988

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• Main Currents in Sociological Thought

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• The Sociological Tradition

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• Immanent Critique as the Core of Critical Theory

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• Against Fragmentation

  Brian Longhurst, Alvin W Gouldner•British Journal of Sociology•1987

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• Studies in Leadership

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• Paradoxes of Reflexive Sociology

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• The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power

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• The End of Ideology

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• Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime

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• The Norm of Reciprocity

  Alvin W Gouldner•American Sociological Review•1960

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• The Changing Function of Critical Theory

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• The State of Working America 2002/2003

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• Unruly Practices

  Chris Weedon, Nancy Fraser•Feminist Review•1992

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• Enter Plato

  David Gallop, Alvin W Gouldner•Phoenix•1967

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• Sociological Theory in Transition

  Open Access•Gerd Schroeter, Mark L Wardell et al.•The Canadian Journal of Sociology•1987

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• The New Sociology

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• Resolving the contradictions of modernity and modernism (Part two)

  Open Access•Daniel Bell•Society•1990

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• Alvin Ward Gouldner

  Open Access•Alvin W Gouldner•Society•1981

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• Resolving the contradictions of modernity and modernism

  Open Access•Daniel Bell•Society•1990

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• Sociology

  Open Access•P Berger, Peter L Berger•Society•1992

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• From Max Weber

  Max Weber, H H Gerth et al.•From Max Weber•2014

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• Between Facts and Norms

  Jürgen Habermas•Between Facts and Norms•1996

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• Mind, Self, and Society

  George Herbert Mead, Charles W Morris•Mind, self, and society•1967

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• Pragmatism and Social Theory

  John Mcgowan, John E McGowan et al.•Social Forces•1996

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• Twenty Lectures

  Lawrence E Hazelrigg, Jeffrey C Alexander•Social Forces•1988

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• The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

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• Postmodern Anxiety

  Steven Seidman•Sociological Theory•1991

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• The End of Sociological Theory

  Steven Seidman•Sociological Theory•1991

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• Word Power

  Steven Seidman•Sociological Theory•1992

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• Anti-Minotaur

  Alvin W Gouldner•Social Problems•1962

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• An Underestimated Alternative

  Open Access•Hans Joas•Symbolic Interaction•1992

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• Dialectic of Enlightenment

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor W Adorno et al.•Dialectic of Enlightenment…•2020

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• The Contradictions of Radical Sociology

  Open Access•Henry Etzkowitz•Critical Sociology•1988

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• Holy Men and Big Guns

  Open Access•Joey Sprague•Gender & Society•1997

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• Social Criticism without Philosophy

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• Sociology in an Era of Fragmentation

  Open Access•G Steinmetz, Ou-Byung Chae•Sociological Quarterly•2002

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• Alvin Gouldner and the Sociology of Ideas

  Open Access•Charles Camic, Neil Gro et al.•Sociological Quarterly•2002

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• A Sociology for our Times

  Open Access•Silvia Pedraza•Sociological Quarterly•2002

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• The Political Unconscious of the Human Sciences

  Open Access•Steven Seidman•Sociological Quarterly•1996

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• The Dark Side of the Dialectic

  Open Access•Alvin W Gouldner•Sociological Inquiry•1976

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• After Postmodernism

  R J Antonio•American Journal of Sociology•2000

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• Why Is Classical Theory Classical

  R Connell, R W Connell•American Journal of Sociology•1997

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• Nietzsche's Antisociology

  R J Antonio•American Journal of Sociology•1995

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• Critical Theory and the Pragmatist Challenge

  D N Shalin•American Journal of Sociology•1992

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• The Normative Foundations of Emancipatory Theory

  R J Antonio•American Journal of Sociology•1989

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• Towards an agenda for social theory in the last quarter of the twentieth century

  Open Access•Alvin W Gouldner•Theory and Society•1978

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• The theory behind Theory and Society

  Open Access•Rod Aya•Theory and Society•1982

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• Remembering Gouldner

  Open Access•Lewisa Coser•Theory and Society•1982

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• The educated minotaur

  Open Access•Cornelis Disco•Theory and Society•1982

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• Gouldner's theory of intellectuals as a flawed universal class

  Open Access•Ivan Szelenyi•Theory and Society•1982

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• Gouldner's theoretical method and reflexive sociology

  Open Access•Charles Lemert, Paul Piccone•Theory and Society•1982

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• Talcott Parsons 1902?1979

  Open Access•Alvinw Gouldner•Theory and Society•1979

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