Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead

Download or read book Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead written by Michael Halewood and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to some social theorists, we are ‘at the end of the social’. This book argues that such pronouncements may be premature, as we need to reengage with what sociologists have previously meant by ‘the social’. ‘Rethinking the Social’ is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber. It examines how the concept of the social became unproblematic for twentieth-century writers and suggests that debates surrounding this concept remain very much alive. Building on A. N. Whitehead’s work, Halewood develops a novel ‘philosophy of the social’.