Overview
- Challenges established modernist assumptions of contemporary sociology
- Reflects current theoretical and empirical strivings to go beyond dominant structures of modern sociology
- Argues for an alternative sociology open to transcivilizational dialogues
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This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination. It questions accepted modernist assumptions such as the equation of society and nation-state, the dualism of individual and society and that of ontology and epistemology. Arguing that contemporary sociology suffers from what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like fire power of western sociology, it argues that sociology has to open itself to transcivilizational dialogues and planetary conversations about self, culture and society. The book also challenges scholars to go beyond a privileging of the post-traditional telos of modernist sociology and puts forward a foundational interrogation of modernist sociology. It underscores the limitations of established conventions of sociology and considering an alternative sociology based upon Confucian vision and practice of self-transformation. This collection offers a way to go beyond dominant structures of modern sociology and contemporary dominant ways of thinking about and doing sociology helping us cultivate a transdisciplinary sociology.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research at universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Kentucky, USA, the University of Freiburg & Humboldt University, Germany and Jagiellonian University in Poland. His research focuses on social movements and cultural change, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Sociology
Book Subtitle: Trans-Civilizational Dialogues and Planetary Conversations
Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6641-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6640-5Published: 23 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4921-8Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6641-2Published: 20 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociological Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Sociology of Culture