Loading...

REALIST-AXIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND IMAGES OF SOCIAL LIFE

by Arkadiusz Jabłoński (Author) Jan Szymczyk (Author)
©2020 Monographs 294 Pages

Summary

The book offers an interpretation of social life developed during a century of sociological thought at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It accounts for both objective ideas and the subjective (authorial) role played by the scholars who developed these ideas. Such an approach results in a perspective – developed through individual research and never-ending academic dialogue – that provides a comprehensive vision of social life. According to the authors, sociological research must follow two major principles to develop in a rational manner. First, it must be considered an independent field of study; second, it must be strictly connected with philosophy. It is philosophy that allows researchers to orient themselves when confronted with complex phenomena; it provides “terms” enabling them to gradually approach truth; when rooted in sociological research, it creates a comprehensive image of social reality.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  • I. FROM SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY TO PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIOLOGY
  • 1. The origins of social philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
  • 2. Shaping the personalistic dimension of social philosophy
  • 3. Towards philosophical sociology
  • II. ELEMENTS OF MACROSOCIOLOGY
  • 1. Rudimentary sociological discourses and their relation to social macrostructures
  • 2. Continuations and new perspectives in macrosociology
  • 3. Macrostructures and the complementarity principle
  • 4. The axiological perspective in macrosociology
  • III. STRUCTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
  • 1. A general description of social movements
  • 2. The organizational structure as a unique feature of new social movements
  • 3. Modus operandi of new social movements and the issue of their efficiency
  • 4. The object of analysis and exploration sociology of new social movements
  • IV. ASPECTS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SOCIAL BOND
  • 1. Understanding the social bond
  • 2. Contexts of the social bond
  • 3. The concept of the regional and the neighbourly bond
  • 4. The social bond and the value of family life
  • V. AN OUTLINE OF THE REALIST-CRITICISTIC THEORY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE
  • 1. Criticistic analysis of literature
  • 2. Literature and critical realism
  • 3. The realist-criticistic analysis of literature
  • Part II. PEOPLE – THE HERITAGE OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
  • I. FRANCISZEK MIREK’S APPROACH TO SOCIOLOGY
  • 1. Biographical note
  • 2. Sociological analyses of the individual experiences of the subject
  • 3. The nature of social activities: a sociological perspective on religious groups
  • 4. Humanistic sociology versus “Christian sociology”
  • II. A REALISTIC VIEW OF SOCIETY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF JAN TUROWSKI
  • 1. Realism in the recognition of man and society
  • 2. Realism in understanding the subject of sociology
  • 3. Realism in sociological empirical research
  • III. SOCIOLOGICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL MOTIVES IN JOHN PAUL II’S LABOREM EXERCENS
  • 1. Work and capital in the context of the “personalistic argument”
  • 2. The meaning of freedom and equality versus the organization of socio-political and economic life
  • 3. Solidarity in social life and workplace
  • IV. STANISŁAW KOWALCZYK’S PERSONALISTIC CONCEPTION OF SOCIETY
  • 1. The assumptions of personalism
  • 2. The notion of a human being
  • 3. From an individual to society
  • 4. The values and rules of social life
  • 5. The political and systemic order in society
  • V. ON THE SOCIAL QUESTION OF TODAY: JANUSZ MARIAŃSKI’S PERSPECTIVE ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING (Edward Balawajder)
  • 1. Sociology and Catholic social teaching
  • 2. The methodological status of Catholic social teaching
  • 3. The fundamental values
  • 4. Democracy without values?
  • 5. “The structures of sin”
  • 6. “New things” in economics
  • 7. The mass media and new media technologies
  • 8. Out of concern for environmental protection and “human ecology”
  • VI. THE REALIST-PERSONALISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE CULTURE OF KNOWLEDGE: LEON DYCZEWSKI’S REFLECTIONS ON A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
  • 1. Knowledge in late modernity
  • 2. The culture of knowledge: individualist versus personalistic approach
  • 3. Catholic university as the last stand of knowledge
  • VII. PERSONALISM AS THE FOUNDATION OF REALISM IN FRANCISZEK MAZUREK’S SOCIOLOGY
  • 1. Personalism or personalisms
  • 2. Realism in the understanding of society
  • 3. Personalism and sociological analysis
  • VIII. JERZY REBETA’S ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY VERSUS THE CONTEMPORARY LOGIC OF SOCIOLOGICAL PERSUASION
  • 1. Social sciences versus practical philosophy
  • 2. Rhetoric as the logic of public persuasion
  • 3. Sociology as moral persuasion
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • Series index

Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche
Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available online
at
http://dnb.d-nb.de.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the
Library of Congress.

About the author

The Authors
Arkadiusz Jabłoński, Hab. PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science; Head of the Department of Social Theories and Sociology of the Family.
Rev. Jan Szymczyk, Hab. PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Director of the Institute of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department of Sociology of Structures, Social Processes and Social Work.

About the book

Arkadiusz Jabłoński / Jan Szymczyk

REALIST-AXIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
AND IMAGES OF SOCIAL LIFE

The book offers an interpretation of social life developed during a century of sociological thought at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It accounts for both objective ideas and the subjective (authorial) role played by the scholars who developed these ideas. Such an approach results in a perspective – developed through individual research and never-ending academic dialogue – that provides a comprehensive vision of social life representative of complementary points of view. For sociological research to develop in a rational manner, it must follow two principles. First, it must be considered an independent field of study; second, it must be strictly connected with philosophy. It is philosophy that allows researchers to orientate themselves when confronted with complex phenomena; it provides “terms” enabling them to gradually approach truth; when rooted in sociological research, it creates a comprehensive image of social reality.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Part I.THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

    I. FROM SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY TO PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIOLOGY

1. The origins of social philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

2. Shaping the personalistic dimension of social philosophy

3. Towards philosophical sociology

   II. ELEMENTS OF MACROSOCIOLOGY

1. Rudimentary sociological discourses and their relation to social macrostructures

2. Continuations and new perspectives in macrosociology

3. Macrostructures and the complementarity principle

4. The axiological perspective in macrosociology

  III. STRUCTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

1. A general description of social movements

2. The organizational structure as a unique feature of new social movements

3. Modus operandi of new social movements and the issue of their efficiency

4. The object of analysis and exploration sociology of new social movements

   IV. ASPECTS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SOCIAL BOND

1. Understanding the social bond

2. Contexts of the social bond

3. The concept of the regional and the neighbourly bond

4. The social bond and the value of family life

    V. AN OUTLINE OF THE REALIST-CRITICISTIC THEORY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE

1. Criticistic analysis of literature

2. Literature and critical realism

3. The realist-criticistic analysis of literature

Part II.PEOPLE – THE HERITAGE OF SOCIAL THOUGHT

    I. FRANCISZEK MIREK’S APPROACH TO SOCIOLOGY

1. Biographical note

2. Sociological analyses of the individual experiences of the subject

3. The nature of social activities: a sociological perspective on religious groups

4. Humanistic sociology versus “Christian sociology”

   II. A REALISTIC VIEW OF SOCIETY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF JAN TUROWSKI

1. Realism in the recognition of man and society

2. Realism in understanding the subject of sociology

3. Realism in sociological empirical research

  III. SOCIOLOGICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL MOTIVES IN JOHN PAUL II’S LABOREM EXERCENS

1. Work and capital in the context of the “personalistic argument”

2. The meaning of freedom and equality versus the organization of socio-political and economic life

3. Solidarity in social life and workplace

  IV. STANISŁAW KOWALCZYK’S PERSONALISTIC CONCEPTION OF SOCIETY

1. The assumptions of personalism

2. The notion of a human being

3. From an individual to society

4. The values and rules of social life

5. The political and systemic order in society

    V. ON THE SOCIAL QUESTION OF TODAY: JANUSZ MARIAŃSKI’S PERSPECTIVE ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING (Edward Balawajder)

1. Sociology and Catholic social teaching

2. The methodological status of Catholic social teaching

3. The fundamental values

4. Democracy without values?

5. “The structures of sin”

6. “New things” in economics

7. The mass media and new media technologies

8. Out of concern for environmental protection and “human ecology”

  VI. THE REALIST-PERSONALISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE CULTURE OF KNOWLEDGE: LEON DYCZEWSKI’S REFLECTIONS ON A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

1. Knowledge in late modernity

2. The culture of knowledge: individualist versus personalistic approach

3. Catholic university as the last stand of knowledge

 VII. PERSONALISM AS THE FOUNDATION OF REALISM IN FRANCISZEK MAZUREK’S SOCIOLOGY

1. Personalism or personalisms

2. Realism in the understanding of society

3. Personalism and sociological analysis

VIII. JERZY REBETA’S ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY VERSUS THE CONTEMPORARY LOGIC OF SOCIOLOGICAL PERSUASION

1. Social sciences versus practical philosophy

2. Rhetoric as the logic of public persuasion

3. Sociology as moral persuasion

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF NAMES

←8 | 9→

INTRODUCTION

Perspectives and images of social life are “subjective” and “objective.” A perspective may be defined as one’s point of view, and it implies an act of looking, which, in turn, requires a perceiving subject. An image is the result of one’s perception, and it shifts the centre of gravity from the subject onto the object. Intellectual activity produces images that follow their own logic, and each of these images is the outcome of a particular discourse applied to create a certain vision of the world. Perspectives and images are conditioned upon one’s point of view. They may be one-dimensional, reduced to one ideological point of view, or they may reflect numerous dimensions of the world, expressing the heterogeneity of points of view and the plurality of perspectives.

The present book offers an interpretation of social life developed during a century of sociological thought at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It accounts for both objective ideas and the subjective (authorial) role played by the scholars who developed these ideas. Such an approach results in a perspective – developed through individual research and never-ending academic dialogue – that provides a comprehensive vision of social life representative of complementary points of view. For sociological research to develop in a rational manner, it must follow two principles. First, it must be considered an independent field of study; secondly, it must be strictly connected with philosophy. It is philosophy that allows researchers to orientate themselves when confronted with complex phenomena; it provides “terms” enabling them to gradually approach truth; when rooted in sociological research, it creates a comprehensive image of social reality.

Details

Pages
294
Year
2020
ISBN (PDF)
9783631828212
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631828229
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631828236
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631827017
DOI
10.3726/b17219
Language
English
Publication date
2020 (August)
Keywords
Theory of Sociology Macrosociology Social Philosophy Social movements Humanistic sociology Catholic social teaching
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 294 pp.

Biographical notes

Arkadiusz Jabłoński (Author) Jan Szymczyk (Author)

Arkadiusz Jabłoński, Hab. PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science; Head of the Department of Social Theories and Sociology of the Family. Rev. Jan Szymczyk, Hab. PhD, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Director of the Institute of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department of Sociology of Structures, Social Processes and Social Work.

Previous

Title: REALIST-AXIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND IMAGES OF SOCIAL LIFE
book preview page numper 1
book preview page numper 2
book preview page numper 3
book preview page numper 4
book preview page numper 5
book preview page numper 6
book preview page numper 7
book preview page numper 8
book preview page numper 9
book preview page numper 10
book preview page numper 11
book preview page numper 12
book preview page numper 13
book preview page numper 14
book preview page numper 15
book preview page numper 16
book preview page numper 17
book preview page numper 18
book preview page numper 19
book preview page numper 20
book preview page numper 21
book preview page numper 22
book preview page numper 23
book preview page numper 24
book preview page numper 25
book preview page numper 26
book preview page numper 27
book preview page numper 28
book preview page numper 29
book preview page numper 30
book preview page numper 31
book preview page numper 32
book preview page numper 33
book preview page numper 34
book preview page numper 35
book preview page numper 36
book preview page numper 37
book preview page numper 38
book preview page numper 39
book preview page numper 40
296 pages