Cordero, R;
Salinas, FJ;
(2017)
Towards a sociology of abstraction: Notes on the relationship between the conceptual and the empirical.
Cinta de Moebio
, 58
pp. 61-73.
10.4067/S0717-554X2017000100005.
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Abstract
This paper aims to contribute to the sociological study of "abstractions" as a key to comprehend the relations between the conceptual and the empirical. Our argument is that "abstraction" is a third term that challenges the customary divorce between these domains in sociology inasmuch as interrogates their complex mediation in social life. To do so, we explore the possibilities of a sociology of abstraction as an exercise of thinking and observation aimed at: (i) comprehending the immersion of social theory's practices of abstraction as immanent to the dynamics of abstraction of society; and (ii) deciphering the concrete movement of concepts that give form to society and durability to social relations. Thus, we intend to show that the project of a sociology of abstractions consists in an unavoidable reflexive retreat that displays concepts in order to reach what is beyond concepts.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Towards a sociology of abstraction: Notes on the relationship between the conceptual and the empirical |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.4067/S0717-554X2017000100005 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-554X2017000100005 |
Language: | English |
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UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061669 |
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