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McLennan, Gregor.

Sociological cultural studies : reflexivity and positivity in the human sciences / Gregor McLennan. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006. - xi, 198 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-193) and index.

Postpositivism and the idea of sociology -- Cultural studies/sociology -- Explanation, articulation, imagination -- Eurocentrism : the 'rise of the west' revisited -- Eurocentrism : postcolonial theory -- Critical multiculturalism -- Sociological culturalism -- The turn to complexity -- Reflexivity and positivity.

In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity.


ISBN: 9780230008854 (hc) 9780230008854 (hc) 0230008852

LCCN: 2006049466

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA671762 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013536670 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Culture--Study and teaching.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Sociology--Methodology.

LC Class. No.: HM623 / .M385 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 306.01 / MCL