Intro -- THE SOCIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION From the Enlightenment to the global age -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I From philosophy to the sociology of knowledge -- 1 Sociologists and philosophy -- Preamble -- The culture of philosophers -- The sociological revolution -- Sociology and philosophy today -- Philosophy as a culture of defence -- Philosophers' self definitions -- The 'end of philosophy' thesis -- 2 The Hegelian apogee -- Kant and Hegel -- The Kantian hegemony -- The Hegelian temptation -- Sociological observations -- Metacritique or socio-genesis? -- 3 Marx's theory of knowledge as a partial breakthrough -- The theory and practice dualism -- The primacy of the practical -- Marx's synthesis: the practical core -- The theoretical inertia of the Marxian tradition -- Part II Figurational explorations -- 4 The limits of transcendental sociology -- The ubiquity of transcendentalism -- Back to Parsons -- The Kantian inspiration -- Transcendentalism or developmentalism? -- Excursus: social phenomenology as proto-sociology -- 5 The structure of structuralism -- Preamble -- Structuralism: a first approximation -- The individual ego or knowing subject -- Metaphysical dualisms -- Positivism and empiricism -- Theories of diachronic social processes -- Structuralism as para-sociology: Levi Strauss and Foucault -- Summary -- 6 Globalization as an emergent concept -- An emerging area of inquiry -- Forerunners -- Marx's synthesis: global aspects -- Thinking globally -- Sociological issues -- Orientation and disorientation -- 7 Structuration theory as a world-view -- Parsonian affinities -- New Liberal affinities -- The scope of sociology -- Philosophy and 'social theory' -- Interaction or interdependence? -- Systematics or socio-genesis? -- 8 Sociology since 1945: socio-genetic and psychogenetic aspects.

Validity, progress and phaseology -- The institutionalization of sociology: the British case -- Functional democratization and informalization -- The three phases of post-war sociology -- Epilogue -- 9 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today.

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