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Towards a sociology of abstraction: Notes on the relationship between the conceptual and the empirical

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. Green open access

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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
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 > 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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