Sociological Cultural Studies
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- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-13: 9781137604675
- Pages: 198
- Binding: Hard Binding
- Year of Pub / Reprint Year: 2016
Description
About The Book
Cultural studies and sociology have long had a close. but trouble relationship. In this systematic
and comprehensive treatment of the interface between these discourses, the first of its kind,
Gregor McLennan offers an argument designed to clarify the considerable overlaps and
continuing differences between these two intellectual traditions. His claim is that while cultural
studies practitioners may not wish to be part of sociological disciplinarily. They cannot avoid
investment in the generic ‘idea of sociology’. Sociology, for its part, must continually push in a
trans-disciplinary direction. In pursuing this overarching line, the author authoritatively
connects central questions in the meta-theory of social science-around postpositivism,
complexity and reflexivity- to more specific scenarios of contention between cultural studies
and sociology, notably multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Throughout the book, original and
lucid interpretations are generated in relation to ‘exemplary’ issues and texts. The aim is to lay
the basis for a more positive and philosophically consensual platform for subsequent
progressive intellectual work in the human sciences.
About The Author
GREGOR McLENNAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Marxism and the Methodologies of History, Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond, and Pluralism, and co-author of Exploring Society. He has also co-edited and contributed to several collections in social and political theory and cultural studie