On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation

by Luc Boltanski

Book Overview

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in the discipline today: the critical sociology that was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745649645
• ISBN13: 9780745649641
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"