Metasociology: An Inquiry into the Origins and Validity of Social Thought - Hardcover

Osterberg, Dag; Sterberg, Dag

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8200027236 ISBN 13: 9788200027232

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book brings to light the diverse modes of social thought, their relation to each other, and to the historical emergence of the modern State, the Market, and the Individual. Österberg investigates the connection between statistics and sociology, the development of sociology as a de-Christianized rendering of conservative thought, and the materialist conception of history as seen in the writings of Marx, Engels, Adorno, and Bourdieu. He also discusses recent avant garde reactions to the materialists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8200027236
• ISBN 13: 9788200027232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276