Sociological Cultural Studies Reflexivity and Positivity in the Human Sciences [Hardcover]

In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity.Acknowledgements Introduction Post-Positivism and the Idea of Sociology Cultural Studies//Sociology Explanation, Articulation, Imagination Eurocentrism: The Rise of the West Revisited Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Theory Critical Multiculturalism Sociological Culturalism The Turn to Complexity Reflexivity and Positivity Conclusion Bibliography Index

'...a prgrammatic and often charged polemical intervention...deserves a wide readership' - Chamsy el-Ojeili, Thesis Eleven

'...bristling with insights...' - Lisa Adkins, Sociology

GREGOR McLENNAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Marxism and the Methodologies of History, Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond, and Pluralism, and co-author of Exploring Society. He has also co-edited and contributed to several collections in social and political theory and cultural studies.