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Undisciplined Theory

Contributor(s): Genosko, Gary (Author)

ISBN: 9780803975910

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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Pub Date: June 18, 1998

Dewey: 300.1

LCCN: 98060211

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.46" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 0.69 lbs) 224 pages

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Social Science | Methodology | Sociology | General

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Description: What is the value of interdisciplinary theory? Are there any boundaries left which social theory must recognize? This book shows that the vital questions in theory are being posed and followed at the interdisciplinary level. Our awareness of this is curtailed by the institutional organization of social theory which still tends to assume a canon and clear boundaries. Gary Genosko proposes that postmodernism has provided the main challenge to institutional myopia. Yet postmodernism is too often treated as an aberration or a blind alley. The challenge for social theorists today is to develop and practice `undisciplined theories′ which constantly question the limits of the canon and expose the porous character of boundaries.

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Review Quotes: `Stimulating and enjoyable... in particular with regard to the overall organization of a few central themes: ambivalence, the bestiary, the in-between and the shift from un- to indisciplined theory′ - Joost van Loon, Nottingham Trent University

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