Neo-classical sociology The prospects of social theory today
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...The repercussions of Axel Honneth’s (1992) work and his debate with Nancy Fraser (Fraser and Honneth, 2003) suggest that the category of recognition (and its negation: invisibility, humiliation, alienation) taps into an unnamed reservoir of diffuse suffering among the population that deserves attention and repair if solidarity is to be maintained....
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...The repercussions of Axel Honneth’s (1992) work and his debate with Nancy Fraser (Fraser and Honneth, 2003) suggest that the category of recognition (and its negation: invisibility, humiliation, alienation) taps into an unnamed reservoir of diffuse suffering among the population that deserves…...
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...As Durkheim famously said in his second Preface to De la division du travail social: ‘Sociology would not be not worth a single hour’s effort if it had no more than speculative interest’ (Durkheim, 1986: xxxix)....
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...…reflection on the phenomenon of the gift as a total social fact have convinced us that the concept of social relations one can deduce and extract from Marcel Mauss’s Essai sur le don (Mauss, 1950) can and should be extended beyond the immediate field of ethnology to all social sciences....
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...From this foundational perspective, Mauss’s discovery of the triple obligation of the gift – ‘to give, to accept and to return the gift’ (Mauss, 1950: 205–14) – appears to be the basis of social life in general....
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...We understand, therefore, that mutatis mutandis modern struggles for recognition are contemporary manifestations of the struggles to give – the ‘agonistic’ gift for recognition – as properly exhumed by Marcel Mauss (1950) in his study of archaic societies....
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