TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Michael E.
TI  - The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences
SN  - 9781439910177
AV  - H61 .C663 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Introduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs?; I. Sociality: The Problem of Definition; 1. The Urgency of Defining the Social; 2. Society as a Basic Fact; 3. Dependence and Autonomy; 4. The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact; 5. The Sociality of Agency; 6. Models, Theory, and Theorizing; 7. Theorizing; 8. Historicism and Its Alternative; 9. Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes; II. Social Action; 10. Can "the Social" Be a Proper Object of Theory?; 11. Further Problems in Theorizing the Social; 12. Social Action as Action; 13. The Self of the Actor; 14. Self and Situation15. Self and Agency; 16. Social Action Reconsidered; III. Subjects and Situations; 17. Overview; 18. Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences; 19. Objects and Their Subjects; 20. The Positive Sense of "Situation"; 21. Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity; 22. Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation; 23. Criticism and Human Affairs; 24. Collective Enunciation; 25. Subjectivity and Objectivity; 26. Summary, Reprise, and Transition; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations
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