Pragmatism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David L Elliott (0000-0002-9540-4424, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp087 |
| OpenAlex | W4256553778 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Pragmatism began in the United States of the 1870s, in the wake of the intellectual revolution touched off by Darwin, as a term for a method designed to clarify disputed, abstract intellectual concepts by defining them with reference to their concrete behavioral consequences. It later took on a broader meaning as the name for a comprehensive philosophical perspective which became widely known and influential from 1898 to its waning during the period of the Cold War. Nevertheless, the perspective continued to influence sociology throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty‐first, especially in the tradition of symbolic interaction
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Pragmatism · Scientific revolution · Sociology · Term (time · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |