IDEOLOGY, FOUNDATIONALISM, AND SOCIOLOGICAL-THEORY

被引:9
作者
GOTTDIENER, M
机构
[1] University of California, Riverside, California
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10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00111.x
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C91 [社会学];
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030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
The issue of foundationalism and the growing irrelvance of sociological metatheorizing to the understanding of contemporary society is considered from the perspective of postmodernism. Foundationalism is treated as a form of ideology. Changes in the analysis of ideology are discussed briefly and the postmodern approach to the critique of grand narratives, or logocentrism, is introduced. Two meta-narratives, neofunctionalism and conflict theory, are criticized as illustrative examples of logocentrism. The postmodern critique is then applied to the issue of foundationalism as recently articulated in the ''Seidman controversy,'' which is exposed as containing hidden foundationalist implications of its own. The critique of foundationalism raises three issues that are discussed: the possibility of a deontological social theory, narrative as social inquiry, and the social role of academics as intellectuals.
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页数:19
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