Overview
More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human world, and is sensitive to the multiple scales on which things exist. A fresh and innovative take on the promise of sociology, this book will appeal to scholars and students both within sociology and the social sciences more broadly.
Full Product Details
Author: O. Pyyhtinen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.307kg
ISBN: 9781137531834
ISBN 10: 1137531835
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 05 November 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Olli Pyyhtinen's stunningly original book dares us to think against the grain of the professional pathologies of sociology - including its fixation on static substances and the micro/macro split - by thinking with the dynamic relationships and heterogeneous collectives that make up our experience of social life on multiple scales. Drawing creatively from both classical and contemporary theorists and elaborating on a variety of readily accessible examples, this manifesto fulfills its promise to bring the imagination to bear on the most urgent tasks of social science. - Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia, Canada
Olli Pyyhtinen's stunningly original book dares us to think against the grain of the professional pathologies of sociology - including its fixation on static substances and the micro/macro split - by thinking with the dynamic relationships and heterogeneous collectives that make up our experience of social life on multiple scales. Drawing creatively from both classical and contemporary theorists and elaborating on a variety of readily accessible examples, this manifesto fulfills its promise to bring the imagination to bear on the most urgent tasks of social science.' - Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia (Canada), author of Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber's Calling (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Author Information
Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and 'the Social' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Gift and its Paradoxes (2014), and Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, with Veijola et al).
