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9780230013261

Recovering Sociology's Classics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230013261

  • ISBN10:

    0230013260

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-01-31
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Debates have raged over the role of classic texts in Sociology teaching and whether they should be discarded. Examining the case for and against, the author puts forward the intriguing hermeneutic idea that their persistence lies not in expressing eternal truths, but in the way history evokes in us a sense of their continuing relevance.

Author Biography

ALAN HOW is Curriculum Leader for undergraduate sociology and Course Leader for the Masters program at University College Worcester, UK. His previous book is The Habermas-Gadamer Debate and the Nature of the Social.

Table of Contents

The Idea of a Canon
Back to the Future: Canons and Their Discontents
The Changing Nature of Sociology: Classics, Texts and Authors
The Hermeneutics of Faith versus the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
The Importance of Distinction: Classics against Canons
Enlarging the Distinction: the Fusion of Horizons
Tradition and Classic Texts
The Famous Three: Weber, Marx and Durkheim
References
Index
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