Processual Sociology

by Andrew Abbott

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world-both individuals and entities-must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022633662X
• ISBN13: 9780226336626
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"