By Nicos P. Mouzelis
There's a transforming into clash among glossy and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject sleek ways as economistic, essentialist and infrequently resulting in authoritarian regulations. Modernists criticize postmodern methods for his or her rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an total photo of the way social wholes (organizations, groups, realms, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and reworked. they think the rejection of holistic methodologies results in social myopia - a refusal to discover seriously the kind of vast difficulties that classical sociology offers with. This publication makes an attempt to bridge the divide among those conflicting views and proposes a singular holistic framework that is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. smooth and Postmodern Social Theorizing will attract students and scholars of social concept and of social sciences ordinarily.
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