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Massimo Pendenza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • intimations of methodological nationalism in Classical Sociology
    European Journal of Social Theory, 2016
    Co-Authors: Massimo Pendenza
    Abstract:

    Nowadays, the widespread view is that Classical Sociology is tainted with ‘methodological nationalism and it would appear that there has been a significant overlap between social and political space. We disagree with this point of view for three reasons: (1) by dealing with the global world, Classical Sociology has already glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the nation-state as a unit of analysis; (2) having operated above all with the notion of ‘social’ rather than ‘national’, its categories are transnational; and (3) when Classical Sociology has dealt with national society, studies have not reified it within its political boundaries. Consequently, in our opinion, Classical Sociology highlights both analytical categories that go beyond the ontology of the nation-state as well as new socio-political forms defined within the trajectory of modernity under the pressure of globalization processes.

  • cosmopolitan nuances in Classical Sociology reshaping conceptual frameworks
    Journal of Classical Sociology, 2015
    Co-Authors: Massimo Pendenza
    Abstract:

    This article proposes to give voice to the argument that prospects a cosmopolitan vision of society by reading between the lines of Classical sociological thought. This vision, neither manifest nor intentional, is, however, unequivocally present. In particular, the article analyses fragments of writings from Tonnies, Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, wherein each author’s underlying approach to cosmopolitanism clearly emerges: liberal (Marx and Tonnies), patriotic (Durkheim) and relational (Simmel). Contributing to the cosmopolitan historical narrative, the analysis shows that a Classical Sociology of cosmopolitanism effectively exists and that, if revisited, certain analytical categories of sociological tradition can be fruitfully adapted to contemporary society. This article does not envisage a rejection of the founding fathers of Classical Sociology; on the contrary, it endorses a more profound analysis of their works.

  • Classical Sociology beyond methodological nationalism
    2014
    Co-Authors: Massimo Pendenza
    Abstract:

    List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors INTRODUCTION Is Classical Sociology Still in Vogue? A Controversial Legacy, Massimo Pendenza PART I: Sociology OF THE GLOBAL WORLD 1. Simmel on Global Society, Vittorio Cotesta 2. Tonnies Today: A Living Legacy in the Sociology of Globalization and Globality, David Inglis 3. Vilfredo Pareto's Contribution to a Sociology of Globalization, Emanuela Susca PART II: THE 'SOCIAL' BEYOND THE 'NATIONAL' 4. Understanding the Social: Cosmopolitanism and Gabriel Tarde's Cosmo-Politics, Michael Schillmeier 5. The 'Social' as Reciprocity: Marcel Mauss and the Idea of Nation, Dario Verderame PART III: THE 'NATIONAL' BEYOND 'METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM' 6. "Merging the National with the Human Ideal": Emile Durkheim on Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, Massimo Pendenza 7. Ubi Bene, Ibi Patria: Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Robert Michels' Reflection, Federico Trocini 8. Beyond Methodological Nationalism? Concepts of Nationhood in German Liberal Social Thought of the Weimar Years, Austin Harrington Index of Names

  • introduction is Classical Sociology still in vogue a controversial legacy
    2014
    Co-Authors: Massimo Pendenza
    Abstract:

    In the contemporary social sciences a certain amount of hostility is directed at Classical Sociology. Classical Sociology in particular, is accused of having a dual, yet interconnected, nature. On the one hand, a view of society is no longer accepted without question that has eluded the critical issue of problematizing the relationship between the social and the geopolitical space of a nation delimited arbitrarily, with its resultant simplification of reality in epistemological, theoretical and methodological terms. On the other hand, Classical sociologists are blamed for their vague awareness of processes of constituting nation-states, ethnic issues, and nationalism and inter-national relations. At the same time, when they are aware of such matters, Classical sociologists are accused of having placed national society on a par with a compact repository for stable and well-defined social relations within (arbitrarily) delimited boundaries. Keywords: Classical Sociology; ethnic issues; inter-national relations; nationalism

Daniel Chernilo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Classical Sociology and the nation state a re interpretation
    Journal of Classical Sociology, 2008
    Co-Authors: Daniel Chernilo
    Abstract:

    This article revisits the claim, largely accepted within the sociological community for over thirty years now, that Classical sociologists had no clear concept of the nation-state and thus were unable to conceptualize its rise, main features and further development in modernity. In contradistinction to this standard view, which in current debates receives the name of methodological nationalism, I advance a re-interpretation of Classical Sociology's conceptualization of the nation-state that points towards what can be called the opacity of its position in modernity. Marx understood the historical elusiveness of the nation-state as he believed that it had already passed its heyday as political struggles were fought between Empires and the Commune. Weber captured the sociological equivocations that arose from the historical disjuncture between the nation and the state. And Durkheim, finally, tried to come to terms with the nation-state's normative ambiguity via the immanent tension between nationalism and co...

  • Classical Sociology and the nation state a re interpretation
    Journal of Classical Sociology, 2008
    Co-Authors: Daniel Chernilo
    Abstract:

    This article revisits the claim, largely accepted within the sociological community for over thirty years now, that Classical sociologists had no clear concept of the nation-state and thus were una...

  • Classical Sociology and the nation state
    2008
    Co-Authors: Daniel Chernilo
    Abstract:

    This article revisits the claim, largely accepted within the sociological community for over thirty years now, that Classical sociologists had no clear con- cept of the nation-state and thus were unable to conceptualize its rise, main features and further development in modernity. In contradistinction to this stand- ard view, which in current debates receives the name of methodological national- ism, I advance a re-interpretation of Classical Sociology's conceptualization of the nation-state that points towards what can be called the opacity of its position in modernity. Marx understood the historical elusiveness of the nation-state as he believed that it had already passed its heyday as political struggles were fought between Empires and the Commune. Weber captured the sociological equivoca- tions that arose from the historical disjuncture between the nation and the state. And Durkheim, finally, tried to come to terms with the nation-state's normative ambiguity via the immanent tension between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The conclusion is that, even if not thoroughly unproblematic, Classical sociologists were able to avoid the reification of the nation-state's position in modernity pre- cisely because they were not obsessed with conceptualizing modernity as such from the viewpoint of the nation-state.

Andreas Reckwitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the status of the material in theories of culture from social structure to artefacts
    Journal for The Theory of Social Behaviour, 2002
    Co-Authors: Andreas Reckwitz
    Abstract:

    The article compares the conceptualizations of the realm of the material or non-cultural in different versions of 20th-century cultural theory. It distinguishes between three phases of historical development: First, the Classical Sociology of knowledge-in the works of Mannheim and late Durkheim-understands the material as a separate realm of social structures, which acts as the foundation for the realm of symbolic orders. The instabilities of this theoretical option of a materialist-culturalist double are resolved in radical culturalism, which appears in different versions in (post-)structuralism, phenomenology, constructivism etc. and which interprets the non-cultural as objects of knowledge or symbolic objects. The problematic neo-Kantian subject-object-distinction in these approaches is the target of a third, novel culturalist option of dealing with material entities: In the work of Bruno Latour, these entities are rehabilitated as artefacts or things that are necessary, effective components of social practices or networks. Latour's approach should be embedded in the wider framework of a post-Wittgensteinian theory of social practices as it is formulated above all by Theodore Schatzki.

Matthias Gross - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Classical Sociology and the restoration of nature the relevance of emile durkheim and georg simmel
    Organization & Environment, 2000
    Co-Authors: Matthias Gross
    Abstract:

    From a social science perspective, one of the central points of ecological restoration is that it implies not only acknowledgement of society’s invention of nature, but also of nature’s answers to human actions. In this article, the author argues that the reflections of the early-20th century sociologists Georg Simmel and Emile Durkheim on the place of human beings in nature could serve as a model for integrating restored and invented nature into sociological analysis, while at the same time allowing other species and nonhuman nature a measure of independence as subjects or actors in a network of relationships that includes humans. Simmel’s concept of society as a web of reciprocal interaction and reciprocal effect (Wechselwirkung), in particular, is of importance for descriptions of a community that includes nonhuman as well as human elements.

Goran Therborn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • what does the ruling class do when it rules state apparatuses and state power under feudalism capitalism and socialism
    2016
    Co-Authors: Goran Therborn
    Abstract:

    In his new book, Goran Therborn - author of the now standard comparative work on Classical Sociology and historical materialism, "Science, Class and Society" - looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis - input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows - to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of state power and state apparatuses. His account of these is comparative in the most far-reaching historical sense: its object is nothing less than the construction of systematic typology of the differences between the feudal state, the capitalist state and the socialist state. Therborn ranges from the monarchies of mediaeval Europe through the bourgeois democracies of the west in the 20th century to the contemporary regimes in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. The book ends with a major analytic survey of the strategies of working class parties for socialism, from the Second International to the Comintern to Eurocommunism, that applies the structural findings of Therborn's enquiry in the 'Future as History'. Written with lucidity and economy, "What Does the Ruling Class Do when it Rules?" represents a remarkable sociological and political synthesis.

  • what does the ruling class do when it rules state apparatuses and state power under feudalism capitalism and socialism
    2016
    Co-Authors: Goran Therborn
    Abstract:

    In his new book, Goran Therborn - author of the now standard comparative work on Classical Sociology and historical materialism, "Science, Class and Society" - looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis - input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows - to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of state power and state apparatuses. His account of these is comparative in the most far-reaching historical sense: its object is nothing less than the construction of systematic typology of the differences between the feudal state, the capitalist state and the socialist state. Therborn ranges from the monarchies of mediaeval Europe through the bourgeois democracies of the west in the 20th century to the contemporary regimes in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. The book ends with a major analytic survey of the strategies of working class parties for socialism, from the Second International to the Comintern to Eurocommunism, that applies the structural findings of Therborn's enquiry in the 'Future as History'. Written with lucidity and economy, "What Does the Ruling Class Do when it Rules?" represents a remarkable sociological and political synthesis.