Henry George
An Unrecognized Contributor to American Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2772385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Peter Siemens (Siemens (Canada), corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-127 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1995.tb02635.x |
| OpenAlex | W2083794578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
It is contended in Part I that Henry George should be recognized as an original American social theorist. He was a pioneering postmodern contributor to social theory who criticized the linear idea of progress and anticipated Durkheim's concept of the "collective consciousness," He recognized the fateful consequences of the separation of political economy into "economics" and "sociology." These include the loss of moral considerations from political economy, and the rise of a sociology that culminates in the proliferation of meaningless abstractions because it is premised on amoral economic assumptions. His theory' of speculative land value as the cause of civilizations' decline is recapitulated and shown in a larger context. The congruence between George's and Weber's concerns and conceptions is detailed. Part 11 (in the April 1995 issue) concludes by tracing the tragic consequences for modern American social theory, from Spencer to Parsons, that result from confusing the value of commodities with the value of land, of private wealth with social value
Art history · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Epistemology · George (robot) · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Postmodernism · Social science · Social theory · Social thought · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Value theory · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
The methodology of the social sciences
Surrender and Catch
The Flight from Ambiguity
The Great Transformation
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Survival and Sociology
The American Shakers
Critics of Henry George. A Centenary Appraisal of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty
The Philosophy of Henry George
Understanding media
Relativism and the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 1997 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |