Sociological Cultural Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Postpositivism and the Idea of Sociology

   • Gregor McLennan

   Pages 1-20

3. Cultural Studies//Sociology

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   Pages 21-43

4. Explanation, Articulation, Imagination

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   Pages 44-61

5. Eurocentrism: The ‘Rise of the West’ Revisited

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   Pages 62-80

6. Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Theory

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   Pages 81-98

7. Critical Multiculturalism

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   Pages 99-119

8. Sociological Culturalism

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   Pages 120-138

9. The Turn to Complexity

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   Pages 139-155

10. Reflexivity and Positivity

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    Pages 156-175

11. Conclusion

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    Pages 176-177

12. Back Matter

    Pages 178-198

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In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity.

• complexity
• Cultural Studies
• Nation
• philosophy
• social science
• sociology

'...a prgrammatic and often charged polemical intervention...deserves a wide readership' - Chamsy el-Ojeili, Thesis Eleven

'...bristling with insights...' - Lisa Adkins, Sociology

• University of Bristol, UK

  Gregor McLennan

GREGOR McLENNAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Marxism and the Methodologies of History, Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond, and Pluralism, and co-author of Exploring Society. He has also co-edited and contributed to several collections in social and political theory and cultural studies.

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