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Sociological theory building --- Qualitative methods in social research --- Grounded theory. --- Sociology --- Research. --- Grounded theory --- Research

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Die verschiedenen Soziologien des Lebens fassen das Leben nicht nur als Objekt, das gesellschaftlich erkannt, normiert und gesteigert wird. Sie verstehen es immer auch als Subjekt seines Wissens, seiner Normen und seines Wandels. Das Leben wird nicht vereinseitigt, sondern seine Verschränkungen werden analysiert: die Immanenz von Natur und Kultur, die Gleichzeitigkeit von Aktivität und Passivität, die Ko-Konstitution von Affekt und Kognition, die Identität von Normativität und Normierung. Im Anschluss an Autorinnen und Autoren wie Bataille, Bergson, Canguilhem, Deleuze, Driesch, Haraway, Plessner, die Pragmatisten oder Simmel entfalten die Beiträge dieses Bandes differente lebenssoziologische Perspektiven und revitalisieren damit einen für die soziologische Theorie in vielerlei Hinsicht instruktiven Diskurs.

Social theory --- Life. --- Normativity. --- Social Philosophy. --- Social Relations. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Sociology. --- Gesellschaft; Leben; Lebenssoziologie; Normativität; Soziologische Theorie; Vitalismus; Sozialität; Kultursoziologie; Sozialphilosophie; Soziologie; Society; Life; Normativity; Sociological Theory; Social Relations; Sociology of Culture; Social Philosophy; Sociology

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This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador. The case of Ecuador is especially interesting, as Ecuadorian sociology oscillated between theoretical debates—some of them out of time—and a constant search for ways of applying them to the local reality. In the decades after its formal creation in 1915, early academic sociology in Ecuador worked creatively with already outdated theories around positivism and organicism to understand the indigenous population's position, the regional fragmentation, and the formation of a coherent nation-state in Ecuador. After a short attempt of installing a more technical sociology in the 1960s, those topics were taken up and re-read by Marxist-inspired critical sociology after the 1970s, leading to the nation-wide institutionalization of one particular tradition that could connect to continental debates. This book engages with several relevant debates in social sciences and humanities, particularly by adding to the thriving research on social sciences and the role of the university and higher education in Latin America. Furthermore, it touches some recently influential topics in sociology: Ecuadorian sociology can be read as Southern Theory or engaged with from a postcolonial or decolonial perspective; the research on how ideas travel, are diffused or localized is vital for understanding sociology in Ecuador; the relation between academia and politics; and more. Philipp Altmann is Professor Titular for Sociological Theory at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. He works on how ideas spread, on the intersection of discourse analysis, history of concepts, and sociology of knowledge. .

Sociology --- History of Latin America --- sociologie --- geschiedenis --- Latin America --- Sociology. --- History of Sociology. --- Sociological Theory. --- Latin American History. --- History.

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The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In Social Theory Now, Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed set a new course for sociologists, bringing together contributions from the most distinctive sociological traditions in an ambitious survey of where social theory is today and where it might be going. The book provides a strategic window onto social theory based on current research, examining trends in classical traditions and the cutting edge of more recent approaches. From distinctive theoretical positions, contributors address questions about how social order is accomplished; the role of materiality, practice, and meaning; as well as the conditions for the knowledge of the social world. The theoretical traditions presented include cultural sociology, microsociologies, world-system theory and post-colonial theory, gender and feminism, actor network and network theory, systems theory, field theory, rational choice, poststructuralism, pragmatism, and the sociology of conventions. Each chapter introduces a tradition and presents an agenda for further theoretical development. Social Theory Now is an essential tool for sociologists. It will be central to the discussion and teaching of contemporary social theory for years to come.

Social sciences --- Philosophy. --- epistemology. --- feminism. --- materiality. --- meaning. --- post-colonial theory. --- practice. --- science. --- social order. --- social theory. --- sociological theory.

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"The noted scholars in this collection expose the backstage stories about surprises that disrupted the smooth trajectory of their research. With both dignity and beauty, the collection as a whole evokes the risks, uncertainty, and excitement of innovative social science research"--

Social sciences --- Sociology --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Sociological research --- Social science research --- Research --- Methodology --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Research. --- Methodology. --- Sociological theory building