Immanent Idealism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6431987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christoforos Bouzanis (0000-0003-2424-0124, University of the West of England Bristol UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.70008 |
| OpenAlex | W4412878534 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 70 |
This article introduces immanent idealism as an alternative path in social ontology and theory. It argues for a distinction between three basic ontological dimensions, the ideational, the institutional and the structural. This approach highlights the cognitional priority of worldviews as the core element of the ideational dimension, and it also argues for the immanence, the transhistorical existential priority (over the institutional and the structural dimensions) and the transituational pervasiveness of the ideational dimension. It is argued that this approach is both antirealist and antinaturalist in socio‐theoretical terms, and that it has decisive implications for the emerging subfield of cognitive sociology. These steps lead us to the invocation of a new idealism standing in opposition to new materialist approaches in social theory
Epistemology · Idealism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Image
Suicide
Method in Social Science
The human imagination
Every Thing Must Go
Structure, Culture and Agency
Realist Social Theory
The Causal Power of Social Structures
The Reality of Social Construction
The Imaginary Institution of Society
Subjectivity and discourse
Posthumanist Performativity
Realism and Social Science
The Possibility of Naturalism
Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition
The Rules of Sociological Method
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity
For reflexivity as an epistemic criterion of ontological coherence and virtuous social theorizing
For Structure
Culture and Social Psychology
Ontogenesis Versus Morphogenesis Towards an Anti-realist Model of the Constitution of Society
The Analytical Micro–Macro Relationship in Social Science and Its Implications for the Individualism-Holism Debate
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics
Emergence
Emergence, Not Supervenience
Containing the Atom
The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu's Habitus
Subjectivity in debate
The Hysteresis Effect
The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity
Habit and the explanation of action
Theories of Embodied Knowledge
Nonreductive Individualism
Ontology and the study of social reality
Conflicting Varieties of Realism
Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
A Realist Theory of Science
The social construction of reality
The Myth of Agreement
From Psychological Science to the Psychological Humanities
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What Is New Materialism
Against Structure
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Future-cultures
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |