Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lukes, Steven

Titel

Sociology’s inescapable past

Ist Teil von

• Journal of classical sociology : JCS, 2021-11, Vol.21 (3-4), p.283-288

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Why does sociology teaching uniquely require study of its classics? The answer, it is suggested, lies in the indeterminacy of the idea of what is social—what constitutes and exemplifies it, at different levels of abstraction, about which the classical sociologists diverge, as do their continuing legacies. Synthesis aiming at disciplinary-wide consensus is not, therefore, a promising path. Selective perception, it is further suggested, deepens insight.