Overview
- Discusses the genesis and the process of formation of the modern concept of society
- Helps us to better understand and assess the crisis of modernity perceived in recent times
- Provides theoretical and epistemological foundations of the modern social sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity. The concept has exerted considerable influence over the last two centuries, during which time many people have conceived themselves and behave as members of a society, and social scientists have explained human subjectivities and conducts as social effects. For both groups, society exists as a very real phenomenon. Historical inquiry shows, however, that the modern concept of society is no more than a historically contingent way of imagining and making sense of the human world.
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Miguel A. Cabrera (1960) is Professor of Modern History at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. He has investigated on subjects such as the history of social citizenship and social reformism. He is also a specialist in historiographical studies, history of concepts, and the history of Modernity.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Genealogical History of Society
Authors: Miguel A. Cabrera
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70437-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70436-4Published: 08 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70437-1Published: 27 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 106
Topics: Sociological Theory, Cultural History, Historical Sociology, Social Theory