Sociology in an Age of Relativism and Uncertainty

Jiří Šubrt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5257-5 (ISBN)

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The book charts the baseline of the transformation of sociological thought through a critical approach to two key works of sociological theory, Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method, and Giddens's New Rules of Sociological Method, works that in their day marked the canon of sociological thought, while today they have come to be seen as antiquated knowledge that needs to be overcome. In this book, Jiří Šubrt attempts - within the framework of an approach he calls 'critical eclecticism and reconfigurationism' - to outline approaches that should bring about desirable changes in contemporary sociological thought. Within his conception of sociology as a science of social processes, he introduces a number of theoretical innovations that include the concept of institutional orders, the research strategy of the 'duplex', and the terms 'transmitters' and 'multipliers'. The book pays particular attention to questions of sociological reflection on time and problems of predicting the future. It points to the ways in which our thinking is both influenced and limited in times of relativism and uncertainty.

Jiří Šubrt - since 1990 - has lectured sociology at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2009, he founded the study program of Historical Sociology there. In its area, he has focused on the problems of the civilization process, social change, modernization development, time and memory. He is the author and editor of many books published in Czech and English, mainly dealing with themes of contemporary sociological theory, particularly with regard to issues of action, structure and social systems. As an internationally recognized expert, he is known to readers thanks to a range of books he has published or edited in recent years. Among the most renowned are The Perspective of Historical Sociology; Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory; The Systematic Approach in Sociology; The Sociology of Time; Rethinking the Theoretical Concepts of Sociology: Critical Eclecticism and Reconfigurationism.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-0364-5257-3 / 1036452573
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5257-5 / 9781036452575
Zustand	Neuware