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- Title
Sizing up the Forest, or Brief Reflection on the Question of Whether There is Such a Thing as Society.
- Authors
Somlai, Peter
- Abstract
Since the seventies a number of authors have written that society is fading away, and sociologists have to look for a new subject. The author analyses three different contexts of this claim. From the viewpoint (1) of methodological individualism, the social is no more than the sum of the individual parts, (2) the globalists however argue that societies are incorporated into a single world society. According to (3) post-modern theories, modem societies are disintegrating, and the new phenomena should be approached with different concepts. In the opinion of the author it was the demand of modem societies for self-knowledge that produced sociology which cannot renounce the task of formulating and satisfying this demand.
- Subjects
SOCIAL theory; SOCIAL systems; METHODOLOGICAL individualism; GLOBALIZATION; MODERN society; SOCIALISTS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1998, Vol 23, Issue 2/3, p209
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341965