Reformism and Melancholia
Economic Crisis and the Limits of Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2322582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Toscano (0009-0007-5156-5414, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1024-1038 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038514544209 |
| OpenAlex | W2317004398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article addresses the persistence of reformism in sociological responses to the crisis. It begins by considering the temporal meaning of crisis and connects it to an appraisal of the extent to which the alternative 'reformism or revolution' still conditions our thinking. The article goes on to consider radical arguments for the obsolescence of reform. It suggests that a focus on the sociology of knowledge has impaired the discipline's capacity to engage critically with the reformist imaginaries that circumscribe policy debate and public commentary
Economics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Obsolescence · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
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The imaginary constitution of financial crises
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Global Sociology' from a Comparative Perspective
Reconceptualizing Crisis
You must fall down the rabbit hole
Marxism and literature
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Social Capital Versus Social Theory
Storming Heaven
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Reassembling the Social
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
Racial Exclusion and the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis
The Open Secret of Real Abstraction
The condition of postmodernity
Crisis
Seeing it Whole
The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge
An important failure
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |