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The way of the social: from Durkheim's society to a postmodern sociality.
- Source :
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History of the Human Sciences . Aug2005, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p17-33. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This article investigates the meaning of the ‘social’ based on Durkheim's philosophy of society as a ‘collective representation’. I argue that the social, the way Durkheim formulates it, is an abstract sign for reality, a metaphor, which operates on the level of language. Because of this fact, the ‘social’ is from the start limited in its functionality as a descriptor, but it also contains within its own linguistic form, in its word, the possibility of renewal and renaming that is the unique force inherent in language. I propose that this origin of the social operates according to the ‘spirit of postmodernism’, which constitutes a common response to modernity, by what later differentiates itself into the currents of sociology and postmodernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09526951
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- History of the Human Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19976334
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695105059304