The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life by Shilling, Chris

The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761965497)

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The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life by Shilling, Chris

The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life

$80.00
The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life by Shilling, Chris

The Sociological Ambition: Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life

$80.00
Format: Paperback
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This book situates sociology in its historical, philosophical and theological contexts and examines how the founders of the discipline developed competing analyses of the processes elementary to social and moral life through their distinctive sociological contributions. Surveying a range of sociological analyses from Comte to feminism, postmodernism and rational choice theory, this book examines the various attempts that have been made to reconstruct the discipline over the last century, and the challenges facing it today. Individual chapters examine Human Sociology′, Sacred Sociology′, Tragic Sociology′, Heroic Sociology′ and Normative Sociology′. The book moves on to discuss post-classical thought, and the attempted reconstruction o

Author: Chris Shilling,Philip A. Mellor,Phillip A. Mellor
ISBN-10: 0761965491
ISBN-13: 9780761965497
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.42w x 0.61d
By Chris Shilling
By Chris Shilling
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Chris Shilling is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and Philip Mellor is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Leeds

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