Pragmatism and Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2557472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mcgowan (0009-0007-5642-2973), John E McGowan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 337 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Pragmatism and social theory, Hans Joas, 1993 |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2580771 |
| OpenAlex | W2104993429 |
| Language | EN |
Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatism--often misunderstood--on Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, and on German thought, with particularly enlightening references to its appropriation by Nazism and its rejection by neo-Marxism. He also explores new currents of social theory in the work of Habermas, Castoriadis, Giddens, and Alexander, fashioning a bridge between Continental thought, American philosophy, and contemporary sociology; he shows how the misapprehension and neglect of pragmatism has led to systematic deficiencies in contemporary social theory. From this skillful historical and theoretical analysis, Joas creates a powerful case for the enduring legacy of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead for social theorists today
Appropriation · Democracy · Epistemology · German · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
The Figure of Knowledge
Three tyrannies of participatory governance
Innovation in deep housing retrofit in the United Kingdom
Selfhood and its pragmatic coherence in the context of social entropy
Bruno Latour’s pragmatic realism
A Revised Portrait of Human Agency
Neo-Pragmatim and Phenomenology
Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle
Transactions of European–American political science
Mixed Methods Research in the Study of Political and Social Violence and Conflict
Frommythostologos
Emancipation or workability
Re-examining Mead
Pragmatism and International Relations
Environmental responsibility and the possibilities of pragmatist-orientated research
Action theories for occupational science
The roles states play
Critique and social movements
The Autonomy of the Self
Pragmatism and Critical Theory
Three works from Cornelius Castoriadis
Creativity and Master Trends in Contemporary Sociological Theory
New Pragmatism and Old Europe
A Deweyan case for the study of uncertainty in health geography
Re-viewing `Role' in Processes of Identity Construction
To start practice theorizing anew
Postmodern Challenges and Modern Horizons
The Scope of Visual Sociology
Through a Public Darkly
A More Laudable Truthfulness
Who Says What the Words Say
Durkheim, Jamesian pragmatism and the normativity of truth
Judicial Decision Making as Knowledge Work
Serial Reciprocity
The Dewey-Lippmann Debate Today
Beyond World Images
Ethnography, Reality, and Truth: The Vital Need for Studies of ‘How Things Work’ in Organizations and Management
The Big Data Agenda
Policy Knowledge
The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory
Ethnographic Practices
What Are Institutions?
Making sense of “international practices”
Pragmatism, Realism and the ethics of crisis and transformation in international relations
Justification, compromise and test
Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics
The Public Has to Define Itself
A Feeling of Unease
Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Inquiries
Sociology and Aesthetics
Mead’s conception of the social act
“Radical” and “symbolic” interactionism
Actor-Centered Sociology and the New Pragmatism
Social Factors in the Economy
For Social Theory
For Pragmatic Public Sociology
Social symbolism
Epistemology and Practice
Creativity, Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
Critical Theory and the Challenge of Globalization
Mind the Gap
Public and Private Priorities in Managing Time in Genetic Research
Mead's Lost Conception of Society
Ethics in Technological Culture
Extended Mind and Embodied Social Psychology
Extended Mind and Embodied Social Psychology
Educação Na E Para a Democracia No Brasil
Interactivism
The interactivist model
Rethinking Social Roles
Work and the Sociological Imagination
Pragmatism's Mundanity
The Sense of Belonging in New Urban Zones of Transition
Critical agency and the future of critique
The Evolution of Pragmatism
The Pragmatic Sources of Modern Power
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
Towards a Pragmatist-Inspired Philosophy of Social Science
On the Cognition in Cognitive Development
Why Children Don't Have to Solve the Frame Problems
Time, Self, and the Curiously Abstract Concept of Agency
What Is Agency
After taste
Richard Rorty's pragmatism
Situated political innovation
How people experience and change institutions
Durkheim's Epistemology
Vínculo social, juventud y trasgresión normativa
Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography
The little death
Measuring futures in action
Language and Life
Stealing Cultural Studies
Re-Turn to Practice
Values, Knowledge and Solidarity
Pragmatism and Ethnomethodology
Sacralidad, cohesión social y desencantamiento. Conversación con Hans Joas
Pragmatism and the prospects of sociological theory
Making the Sociological Canon
Wilhelm Jerusalem's sociology of knowledge in the dialogue of ideas
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