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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3158377.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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"
- MEDIATION AND ITS CRISIS
- Mediation through Fragmentation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author