The Sociogony: Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Towards a "Marxheimian" Sociology

1. Authority and Authoritarianism
2. Reason and Mediation
3. The Concept
4. The Absolute
5. Ersatz Absolutes
6. Critical and Ordinary Sociology Circle the Invisible
7. The Negative Absolute
8. Networks and Sideways Glances at Jittery Totalities
9. Marxist Association

1. The Facticity of the Social
2. Social Facts
3. The Impersonality of Facts
4. Collective Conduct
5. Collective Consciousness
6. Collective Emotions and Sentiments
7. Currents and Crystallizations
8. Externality
9. Coercion and Authority
10. Irreducibility

Bibliography

Index

Mark P. Worrell, Ph.D. (2003, University of Kansas), is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland. Worrell has published widely in critical theoretical journals, is the author of several previous books, and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Sociology.