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245	0	0	_aNo social science without critical theory _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Harry F. Dahms.
260			_aBingley : _bJAI, _c2008.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 401 p.)
490	1		_aCurrent perspectives in social theory, _x0278-1204 ; _vv. 25
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aSince the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and psychology, but also political science and sociology have been moving further and further away from the challenge key representatives of the so-called first generation of Frankfurt School critical theorists (Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse) identified as central to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the reconciliation of facts and norms. As professional disciplines, each individual social science, and even philosophy, is prone to ignoring both the actuality and the relevance for research of alienation and reification as the mediating processes that constitute the reference frames for critical theory. Consequently, mainstream social-scientific research tends to progress in the hypothetical: we study the social world as if alienation, reification, and more recent incarnations of those mediating processes had lost their shaping forcewhile, in the context of globalization, their manifestations are ever more apparent, and tangible. The chapters included in this volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" highlight the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. Contributions examine the links between political geographies and globalization; Marxism and public sociology; anti-Semitic workers and Jewish stereotypes; governmental rationality and state power; restricted eros and contemporary politics; Marcuse and the psycho-politics of transformation; contemporary theory and consumer society; and the theory of C. Wright Mills. This book includes nine chapters from some of the most respected personalities in the field and a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aFrankfurt school of sociology.
650		0	_aCritical theory.
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650		7	_aSocial Science _xSociology _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aDahms, Harry F.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tNo social science without critical theory. _dBingley : JAI, 2008 _z9780762314836 _w(OCoLC)245556280
830		0	_aCurrent perspectives in social theory ; _vv. 25.
856	4	0	_uhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/25
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