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Sociological cultural studies : reflexivity and positivity in the human sciences / Gregor McLennan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.Description: xi, 198 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230008854 (hc)
  • 9780230008854 (hc)
  • 0230008852
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 306.01 MCL
LOC classification:
  • HM623 .M385 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Postpositivism and the idea of sociology -- Cultural studies/sociology -- Explanation, articulation, imagination -- Eurocentrism : the 'rise of the west' revisited -- Eurocentrism : postcolonial theory -- Critical multiculturalism -- Sociological culturalism -- The turn to complexity -- Reflexivity and positivity.
Summary: In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity.
Item type: Book
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Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archbishop Kiwanuka Memorial Library 306.01 MCL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 43898
Archbishop Kiwanuka Memorial Library 306.01 MCL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 42283
UMU Rubaga Campus 306.01 MCL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) In transit from Archbishop Kiwanuka Memorial Library to UMU Rubaga Campus since 22/11/2016 43923

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-193) and index.

Postpositivism and the idea of sociology -- Cultural studies/sociology -- Explanation, articulation, imagination -- Eurocentrism : the 'rise of the west' revisited -- Eurocentrism : postcolonial theory -- Critical multiculturalism -- Sociological culturalism -- The turn to complexity -- Reflexivity and positivity.

In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity.

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