Gross / Reed / Winship The New Pragmatist Sociology

Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55523-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gross, Neil L.

Reed, Isaac Ariail

Winship, Christopher

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martin, John Levi

Huebner, Daniel

Flores, Luis

Silver, Daniel

Whitford, Josh

Tavory, Iddo

Timmermans, Stefan

Elfakhani, Mazen

Small, Mario

Hughes, Cayce

Pamphile, Vontrese

Parker, Jeffrey

Aviles, Natalie B.

Silbey, Susan

Lichterman, Paul

Brown, Karida

Vincent, Luna

Cefai, Daniel

Mische, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Pragmatist Sociology: Histories and Possibilities, by Isaac Ariail Reed, Neil Gross, and Christopher Winship
Part I: Inquiry
2. What Sociologists Should Get Out of Pragmatism, by John Levi Martin
3. Self-Reflection and Social Responsibility in Research: Lessons from Early Pragmatist Historical Investigations, by Daniel Huebner
4. Problem Situation Misassessment and the Financial Crisis, by Luis Flores and Neil Gross
5. Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Sociology, by Daniel Silver
6. Disambiguating Dewey; or Why Pragmatist Action Theory Neither Needs Nor Asks Paradigmatic Privilege, by Josh Whitford
Part II: Agency
7. Problem-Solving in Action: A Peirceian Account, by Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans
8. Projective and Responsive Creativity Among On-Demand Workers, by Mazen Elfakhani
9. Words Versus Actions in the Network Behavior of Low-Income African Americans, by Mario Small, Cayce C. Hughes, Vontrese D. Pamphile, and Jeffrey N. Parker
10. Scientific Innovation as Environed Social Learning, by Natalie B. Aviles
11. Why Do Biologists and Chemists Do Safety Differently? The Reproduction of Cultural Variation Through Pragmatic Regulation, by Susan Silbey
Part III: Democracy
12. Accidental Discovery and the Pragmatist Theory of Action: The Emergence of a Boston Police and Black Ministers Partnership, by Christopher Winship
13. Pragmatist Comparative-Historical Sociology, by Isaac Ariail Reed and Paul Lichterman
14. American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro, by Karida L. Brown and Luna Vincent
15. The Public Arena: A Pragmatist Concept of the Public Sphere, by Daniel Cefaï
16. Finding the Future in Pragmatist Thought: Imagination, Teleologies, and Public Deliberation, by Ann Mische
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Gross is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. He is the author of Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (2013) and Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (2008).

Isaac Ariail Reed is professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (2020) and Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences (2011).

Christopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a senior faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is coauthor of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (second edition, 2014).