{"product_id":"founders-classics-canons-peter-baehr-9781412857055","title":"Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of the Social Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003eFounders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions--feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial--question the status of \"tradition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFounders, Classics, Canons\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be \"founded\" and why the term \"founder\" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of \"canon\" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Baehr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1412857058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781412857055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Peter Baehr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065548812543,"sku":"9781412857055","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9533b2d-2c65-4235-82e0-3e5cdae43076.jpg?v=1768675695","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/founders-classics-canons-peter-baehr-9781412857055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}