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John Bellamy Foster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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marx s theory of metabolic rift classical foundations for environmental sociology
American Journal of Sociology, 1999Co-Authors: John Bellamy FosterAbstract:This article addresses a paradox: on the one hand, environmental sociology, as currently developed, is closely associated with the thesis that the classical Sociological Tradition is devoid of systematic insights into environmental problems; on the other hand, evidence of crucial classical contributions in this area, particularly in Marx, but also in Weber, Durkheim, and others, is too abundant to be convincingly denied. The nature of this paradox, its origins, and the means of transcending it are illustrated primarily through an analysis of Marx's theory of metabolic rift, which, it is contended, offers important classical foundations for environmental sociology.
Pavel Sorokin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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russian Sociological Tradition in the context of international discourse specific features problems and perspectives
Sociological studies, 2017Co-Authors: Pavel SorokinAbstract:Is there anything in the professional heritage of Russian sociology, which may be considered a certain “competitive advantage”, of the Russian Sociological community in its dialogue with foreign colleagues? Addressing this problem, we elaborate a comprehension of Russian sociology as a continuing and integrative Tradition of social thought development, unified by a set of underlying common features: (1) publicism; (2) moral and ethical concern; (3) problem orientation. Contemporary Russian sociologists often tend to see these characteristics as obstacles to integration process in international arenas with their more rigorous methodological standards and more independent academic sphere. However, literature analysis demonstrates that attempts to make sociology an as “hard” science as possible, become increasingly questionable. The outlined three features are particularly important, for seeing the opportunities of Russian scholars to make valuable contribution to the global sociology in its response to the issues discussed by the foreign autors.
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The Russian Sociological Tradition from the XIXth Century Until the Present: Key Features and Possible Value for Current Discussions
The American Sociologist, 2015Co-Authors: Pavel SorokinAbstract:The aim of this article is to highlight key features of the Russian Sociological Tradition and to demonstrate its relevance for certain ongoing international debates. In the current literature the image of “Russian sociology” remains fragmentary and incomplete. Different stages in the history of Russian sociology are usually considered as mutually antagonistic. We challenge this view by arguing that the Russian Sociological Tradition can be seen as a continuing trajectory of social thought development, lasting from the XIXth century until present days and unified by a set of underlying historically determined common features: publicism (an orientation to non-academic audiences and a desire to promote changes in the real world); moral and ethical concern (a clear expression of value orientations; the particular importance of ethical and moral issues); problem orientation (a focus on urgent social concerns with “problem” dominating over “method” in Sociological research). We demonstrate the importance of these features for a better understanding of the perspectives and contributions of Russian sociologists to current international debates.
Robert Leroux - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cournot and the french Sociological Tradition
2019Co-Authors: Robert LerouxAbstract:Since the end of the nineteenth century, there have been many attempts to draw comparisons between the works of Comte and Cournot. Some scholars, for various reasons, have seen important similarities in the writings of these two authors. Felix Ravaisson remarked in his famous report on the state of philosophy that “Cournot arrives at conclusions that do not differ greatly from the positivist doctrine as constituted above all by Auguste Comte.”
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la nation and the quebec Sociological Tradition 1890 1980
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2001Co-Authors: Robert LerouxAbstract:Abstract: What does Quebec sociology tell us about the question of "la nation." Or, more specifically, how does the discussion of this question allow us to interpret Quebec social thought? This article suggests that the question of "la nation" gives a certain coherence, perhaps even unity, to the history of Sociological thought in Quebec. Approximately from 1890 to 1980, from Edmond de Nevers to Fernand Dumont, the national question generated substantial discussions organized around the issue of national survival. I examine five major research concerns of these discussions: history, demography, religion, language, and education. Resume: Que nous apprend la sociologie quebcoise a propos de la question nationale? Ou encore, peut-etre plus specifiquement, comment la question nationale permet-elle d'interpreter la pensee sociologique quebecoise? Cet article suggere que la question de la nation donne une coherence, sinon une certaine unite l'historie de la pensee sociologique au Quebec. De 1890 environ jusqu'aux annees 1980, d'Edmond de Nevers a Femand Dumont, la question de la nation a ete l'objet d'importantes discussions qui n'ont pas manque de s'inscrire dans ce qu'on appele le paradigme de la survivance. Cette question est ici discutee a partir de cinq grands axes de recherche: l'histoire, le nombre, la religion, la langue et l'education. The question of "la nation" has occupied a central place in the history of Sociological thought and that of the social sciences and humanities in Quebec since their very beginnings. This has been to such an extent that if we come to understand the issues and what constitute their essential elements, we can understand not only a multitude of social, political and economic problems which characterize the evolution of contemporary Quebec, but we can also delineate the fundamental characteristics of a corpus of Sociological work which is otherwise extremely heterogeneous. This heterogeneity derives from the longstanding interest of numerous Quebec sociologists and intellectuals in the national question for over a century and a half. Some conclude that the future of Quebec remains in the Canadian federation; in contrast, others believe that this future is to be found in political independence. My purpose is not to return to this debate nor to those issues and questions which flow from it. The focus here is on wha t sociologists -- or specialists in other social sciences, in some instances -- might have in common. What is shared by those Quebec sociologists and social scientists whose have lived in different areas or different milieu as regards preoccupations and themes which might constitute an underlying unity of a Quebec Sociological Tradition? The approach used here is inspired by Robert Nisbet's The Sociological Tradition. In this book, as we know, he focuses on those central themes around which there is certain unity in the discipline. Here the basic themes in Quebec sociology are elucidated. Five principal themes can be identified among others: history, demography, religion, language and education. Firstly, history is a fundamental element in Quebec sociology (as it is in the sociology of French Canada more generally): it includes at once collective memory and Tradition and often a vision of the future, especially among earlier intellectuals. Concern with the relative numerical strength of the French Canadian minority in North America transcends demography and has long had a strong ideological dimension, as reflected in what we will later call the "revanche des berceaux" or the idea of encouraging a high fertility rate for the purpose of expanding political and social power; especially among pioneers such as Edmond de Nevers and Edouard Montpeti t who gave considerable attention to ways in which demographic growth could be promoted and relative numerical erosion prevented. Religion includes the moral and sacred dimension, the clergy and the Church, and in a certain way the idea of community. …
Frederic Vandenberghe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sociology as practical philosophy and moral science
Theory Culture & Society, 2018Co-Authors: Frederic VandenbergheAbstract:The philosophical assumptions that organize moral sociology as practical philosophy are the outcome of a secular quest to investigate the principles, norms and values behind the constitution of society. As a protracted response to the whole utilitarian-atomistic-individualistic Tradition that systematically deemphasizes the constitutive role that morality plays in the structuration of self and society, the Sociological Tradition has continued, by its own means, the Tradition of moral and practical philosophy in theoretically informed empirical research of social practices. Going back to classic moral philosophy, I want to show in this article how social theory is involved in the quest for ‘the good life with and for the others in just institutions’ (Ricoeur).
Georgi Dimitrov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the short happy life of the american Sociological Tradition
Managerial Law, 2005Co-Authors: Georgi DimitrovAbstract:The very headline of this presentation hints at least two things. First, what is meant is the history of American sociology, though it is some what awkward to say so outright. Second, the history of American sociology is accomplished, in an impor tant sense, but one should not say that so out‐right, either. In philosophy, as Wittgenstein advised, whereof we can not speak, thereof we must be silent. A different rule reigns in sociology: whereof we can hint at, thereof we must prove. My first task, there fore, is to prove that no matter how embarrassing it may seem one canspeak of a his tory of American sociology after all. My second task is to prove that it has already been on a course of development specifically characteristic of it. And, finally, my last point will be that this specific course is brought to its desired end. Every thing in its own time. Talking about the history of American sociology is extremely risky. But it is the risk that it makes it worth trying. Part of the risk stems from the issue if there is a history of sociology at all, as well as from the issue if there is American sociology in the proper sense of the word. Apart from this, there is the consideration that it may be the American nature proper of that sociology that makes it the least likely to have its own history. First things first.