Coming crisis of Western Sociology

By:

"Gouldner, Alvin W."

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Basic Books; 1970Description: 528pSubject(s):

Sociology

DDC classification:

301.01 Gou

Summary: Social theorists today work within a crumbling social matrix of paralyzed urban centers and battered campuses. Some may put cotton in their ears, but their bodies still feel the shock waves. It is no exaggeration to say that we theorize today within the sound of guns. The old order has the picks of a hundred rebellions thrust into its hide. The present study is part of a larger work plan, whose first product was Enter Plato, and whose objective is to contribute to an historically informed sociology of social theory. The plan envisages a series of studies called "The Social Origins of Western Social Theory," and I am now at work on two other volumes in it. One of these is on the relation of the nineteenth century Romantic movement to social theory, and another is a study in which I hope to connect the various analytic threads, presenting a more systematic and generalized sociological theory about social theories.

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Social theorists today work within a crumbling social matrix of paralyzed urban centers and battered campuses. Some may put
cotton in their ears, but their bodies still feel the shock waves. It is no exaggeration to say that we theorize today within the sound of guns. The old order has the picks of a hundred rebellions thrust into its hide.

The present study is part of a larger work plan, whose first product was Enter Plato, and whose objective is to contribute to an
historically informed sociology of social theory. The plan envisages a series of studies called "The Social Origins of Western Social Theory," and I am now at work on two other volumes in it. One of these is on the relation of the nineteenth century Romantic movement to social theory, and another is a study in which I hope to connect the various analytic threads, presenting a more systematic and generalized sociological theory about social theories.

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