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Conceptualising the Social World. Principles of Sociological Analysis

The scale of this book reflects an extended period of academic investment over a lengthy period, and is recognised in a Review Symposium as ‘unusually wide in scope‘. ‘[D]rawing upon a compendious knowledge of the development of the social sciences’, the book ‘demonstrate[s] the cumulative nature of sociological knowledge, and transcend[s] artificial theoretical and disciplinary differences’. Its summation of the development of social theory in the past two centuries embraces a diversity of approaches that are depicted as complementary to each other. It is a ‘a bold … apologia for sociology’ that seeks to overcome the fragmentation of the discipline.