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    The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Michael E. Brown (Author)

    9781439910153

    Hardback, published 13 June 2014

    538 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm, 0.83 kg

    In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different disciplines that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations.

     

    The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences restores the centrality of sociality to all disciplines that provide for and depend on the social dimension of human life. Ultimately, he establishes a theory of the unity of the human sciences that will surely make readers rethink the current state and future of theory in those fields for years to come.

     

    Introduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs? 
     
    I SocialIty: The Problem of Definition
     
     1 The Urgency of Defining the Social
     2 Society as a Basic Fact
     3 Dependence and Autonomy
     4 The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact
     5 The Sociality of Agency
     6 Models, Theory, and Theorizing
     7 Theorizing
     8 Historicism and Its Alternative
     9 Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes
     
    II Social Action
     
     10 Can "the Social" Be a Proper Object of Theory?
     11 Further Problems in Theorizing the Social
     12 Social Action as Action
     13 The Self of the Actor
     14 Self and Situation
     15 Self and Agency
     16 Social Action Reconsidered
     
    III Subjects and Situations
     
     17 Overview
     18 Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences
     19 Objects and Their Subjects
     20 The Positive Sense of "Situation"
     21 Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity
     22 Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation
     23 Criticism and Human Affairs
     24 Collective Enunciation
     25 Subjectivity and Objectivity
     26 Summary, Reprise, and Transition
     
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    References
    Index
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