The New Pragmatist Sociology

Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-20378-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 264 mm x 185 mm, Gewicht: 1006 g

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism from a distance, through the works of canonical social scientists including George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Irving Goffman, and W. E. B. DuBois, rather than the philosophers who founded the school of thought, such as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and William James.

In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism. The book is divided into three sections that examine questions of methodology, social interaction, and politics across the broad themes of inquiry, agency, and democracy. Essays engage widely and deeply with topics that motivate both pragmatist philosophy and sociology, including rationality, speech, truth, expertise, and methodological pluralism.

Contributors include Natalie Aviles, Karida Brown, Daniel Cefaï, Mazen Elfakhani, Luis Flores, Daniel Huebner, Cayce C. Hughes, Paul Lichterman, John Levi Martin, Ann Mische, Vontrese D. Pamphile, Jeffrey N. Parker, Susan Sibley, Daniel Silver, Mario Small, Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans, Luna White, and Joshua Whitford.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winship, Christopher

Gross, Neil L.

Reed, Isaac Ariail

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martin, John Levi

Huebner, Daniel

Flores, Luis

Silver, Daniel

Whitford, Josh

Tavory, Iddo

Timmermans, Stefan

Elfakhani, Mazen

Small, Mario

Hughes, Cayce

Pamphile, Vontrese

Parker, Jeffrey

Aviles, Natalie B.

Silbey, Susan

Lichterman, Paul

Brown, Karida

Vincent, Luna

Cefai, Daniel

Mische, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Gross is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. He is the author of Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (2013) and Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (2008).

Isaac Ariail Reed is professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (2020) and Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences (2011).

Christopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a senior faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the editor of the journal Sociological Methods and Research and coauthor of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (second edition, 2014).