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Social theory: an anti-individualist story

Review of Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl, Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures. Translated by Alex Skinner. Cambridge University Press. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (reprinted 2010).

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Notes

  1. Jeff Manza, Michael Sauder, and Nathan Wright, “Producing Textbook Sociology,” European Journal of Sociology, 51, 2, pp. 271–304, 2010.

  2. For a very interesting attempt along these lines, see Jean Terrier, Visions of the Social: Society as a Political Project in France, 1750–1950. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2011.

  3. See the excellent article by Ronald Jepperson and John W. Meyer, “Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualism,” Sociological Theory, 29, 1, March 2011, pp. 54–73.

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Lukes, S. Social theory: an anti-individualist story. Theor Soc 42, 653–657 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-013-9207-y

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