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Michael E. Brown is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and former Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of The Historiography of Communism, Collective Behavior (with Amy Goldman) and The Production of Society as well as New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, which he co-edited with Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten and George Snedeker.
Michael E. Brown is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University and former Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of The Historiography of Communism, Collective Behavior (with Amy Goldman) and The Production of Society as well as New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, which he co-edited with Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten and George Snedeker.
Introduction: What Is Human about Human Affairs?
I SocialIty: The Problem of Definition
1 The Urgency of Defining the Social
2 Society as a Basic Fact
3 Dependence and Autonomy
4 The Certainty of the Social as the Basic Fact
5 The Sociality of Agency
6 Models, Theory, and Theorizing
7 Theorizing
8 Historicism and Its Alternative
9 Social Facts, Situations, and Moral Stakes
II Social Action
10 Can "the Social" Be a Proper Object of Theory?
11 Further Problems in Theorizing the Social
12 Social Action as Action
13 The Self of the Actor
14 Self and Situation
15 Self and Agency
16 Social Action Reconsidered
III Subjects and Situations
17 Overview
18 Causes of Failure in the Social Sciences
19 Objects and Their Subjects
20 The Positive Sense of "Situation"
21 Practices, Situations, and Inter-subjectivity
22 Criticism, Inter-subjectivity, and Collective Enunciation
23 Criticism and Human Affairs
24 Collective Enunciation
25 Subjectivity and Objectivity
26 Summary, Reprise, and Transition
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
