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  title info:
    title: No social science without critical theory
  name:
    name part: Dahms, Harry F.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley
    publisher: JAI
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 401 p.)
  abstract: Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and psychology, but also political science and sociology have been moving further and further away from the challenge key representatives of the so-called first generation of Frankfurt School critical theorists (Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse) identified as central to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the reconciliation of facts and norms. As professional disciplines, each individual social science, and even philosophy, is prone to ignoring both the actuality and the relevance for research of alienation and reification as the mediating processes that constitute the reference frames for critical theory. Consequently, mainstream social-scientific research tends to progress in the hypothetical: we study the social world as if alienation, reification, and more recent incarnations of those mediating processes had lost their shaping forcewhile, in the context of globalization, their manifestations are ever more apparent, and tangible. The chapters included in this volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" highlight the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. Contributions examine the links between political geographies and globalization; Marxism and public sociology; anti-Semitic workers and Jewish stereotypes; governmental rationality and state power; restricted eros and contemporary politics; Marcuse and the psycho-politics of transformation; contemporary theory and consumer society; and the theory of C. Wright Mills. This book incl…
  note: edited by Harry F. Dahms.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Frankfurt school of sociology
  subject:
    topic: Critical theory
  subject:
    topic: Social theory
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  classification: HM480 .N6 2008
  classification: 301.01
  classification: 316
  classification: 71.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: No social science without critical theory
    origin info:
      publisher: Bingley : JAI, 2008
    identifier: (OCoLC)245556280
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 25
  identifier: 9781849505383 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 1849505381 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 9780762314836 (hbk.)
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/25
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    record creation date: 080822
    record change date: 20100917015550.0
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng