Sociology in Post-Normal Times

Charles Thorpe

doi:10.5771/9781793625984

Summary

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's “society” is no longer viable because globalization has put an end to social reform, thus the assumptions and goals of sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity. In the face of the pandemic and climate change, Sociology in Post-Normal Times demands no less than the birth of a global humanity beyond nation states as the precondition for human survival.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2597-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2598-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 304
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. The Decline of American Imperialism and the End of Normal No access
2. The Spectacle of Normalcy No access
3. Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Disposability No access
4. The Post-Normal Condition No access
5. Normal and Post-Normal Sociology No access
6. The University Caught in the Contradiction between Nation-State and Global Economy No access
7. Notes No access
1. Risk and Dread No access
2. Wilding in Post-Normal and Post-National Capitalism No access
3. The Normalcy of Pathology No access
4. Notes No access
1. Science, Market, State No access
2. “Science as a Vocation” and the Paradoxes of Capitalist Rationalization No access
3. The Self-Negation of Autonomous Science No access
4. War Is a Force That Gives Sociologists Meaning No access
5. Notes No access
1. Normalcy and Normal Sociology No access
2. “Society” as Commodity Fetishism and Nationalism No access
3. Sociology as Technocratic Utopianism No access
4. The Manufacture of Normalcy and Its Material Foundations No access
5. The End of Sociology’s “Society” No access
6. MEDIATION AND ITS CRISIS No access
7. Mediation through Fragmentation No access
8. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 253 - 294
Index No access Pages 295 - 302
About the Author No access Pages 303 - 304