Peter McHugh (1929-2010) was an internationally known sociologist within the field of anti-positivist social theory. As the only selection of McHugh's sole-authored writings, Redefining the Situation presents a comprehensive yet surprising view of this key theorist's influence in this field. Redefining the Situation is a compendium of McHugh's published and unpublished short-form writings, along with three new essays on McHugh's work that include an original essay by his long-time collaborator and friend Alan Blum. The collection contributes to the project of reinventing social theory by providing a new perspective from which to imaginatively rethink the development of sociology over the last fifty years. It locates McHugh's work not only within the modern and postmodern sociological tradition but also within contemporary social theory broadly, including hermeneutics, critical theory, deconstruction, and Hannah Arendt's political theory. The essays and articles in this volume show the development of a method to analyze everyday behaviour in light of fundamental questions, exploring conflicts and connections between socialization and recidivism, fragmentation and ethnic cleansing, justice and affirmative action, teaching and university politics, and intimacy and aesthetics. It shows how we can move beyond contemporary debates about big data/postmodernism, and along the way develops convergences in Anglo-American and Continental thought. By tracing the development of the tradition of social inquiry, Analysis, from its beginnings until today, Redefining the Situation re-establishes a prominent sociologist as one of the leading intellectuals in the field of interpretive social theory. --$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 301
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773558187 9780773558182 9780773558175 0773558179 9780773556928
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- HM585
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- R43 2019eb
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- NLC
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- 1 electronic text (xxxix, 293 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00239695 (OCoLC)1081304790 (CaOOCEL)456831
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- Writings of Peter McHugh
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- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- REDEFINING THE SITUATION 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Introduction 8
- Acknowledgments 38
- 1 Social Disintegration as a Requisite of Resocialization 44
- 2 Structured Uncertainty and Its Resolution: The Case of the Professional Actor 59
- 3 On the Nature of Rule Following 78
- 4 On the Failure of Positivism 93
- 5 A Common Sense Conception of Deviance 112
- 6 Confrontation 141
- 7 A Letter of Resignation 157
- 8 On a Letter of Resignation 164
- 9 Making, Fragmentation, and the End of Endurance 180
- 10 Insomnia and the (T)error of Lost Foundation in Postmodernism 192
- 11 Shared Being, Old Promises, and the Just Necessity of Affirmative Action 221
- 12 Notes on Circulation 254
- 13 Intimacy 261
- 14 Furthermores on the Aesthetic 279
- 15 Delicacy, Desire, and Dream in the Work of Peter McHugh: Towards a Sociology of Jouissance 284
- 16 The Invention of Analysis: “If This Is Sociology, I Want to Be in It” 299
- The Works of Peter McHugh 328
- Index 330
