Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory

by Peter Wagner

Book Overview

This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761951466
• ISBN13: 9780761951469
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"