Sociology in post-normal times

"The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global huma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thorpe, Charles, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, [2022]
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Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3158377.pdf
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Hypernormalization in Post-Normal Times -- The Decline of American Imperialism and the End of Normal -- The Spectacle of Normalcy -- Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Disposability -- The Post-Normal Condition -- Normal and Post-Normal Sociology -- The University Caught in the Contradiction between Nation-State and Global Economy -- Notes -- Chapter 2: From the Pathology of Normalcy to the Normalcy of Pathology -- Risk and Dread 
505 8 |a Wilding in Post-Normal and Post-National Capitalism -- The Normalcy of Pathology -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Reason of State in a Global Age -- Science, Market, State -- "Science as a Vocation" and the Paradoxes of Capitalist Rationalization -- The Self-Negation of Autonomous Science -- War Is a Force That Gives Sociologists Meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Sociological Moment -- Normalcy and Normal Sociology -- "Society" as Commodity Fetishism and Nationalism -- Sociology as Technocratic Utopianism -- The Manufacture of Normalcy and Its Material Foundations -- The End of Sociology's "Society" 
505 8 |a MEDIATION AND ITS CRISIS -- Mediation through Fragmentation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author 
520 |a "The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2022). 
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