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This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics.
Eliran Bar-El is a sociologist of knowledge based at the University of Cambridge where he recently completed his PhD.
Part 1:Towards a Sociology of Multiplicities.- 1. Introduction and Retroduction: The Logic of the Social.- 2. The Antinomies of the Social: Self-Reference, Individual, and Society.- 3. Problems Abound: Multiplicities—Beyond the One and the Many.-Part 2: The Events of the Social: Counting the Dialectic.-4.1 → 2: From Science to Social Science: Positivism.- 5.2 → 3: From Kant to Hegel: Conflictualism.- 6.3 → 2: American Interlude—From James (Back) to Kant: Pragmatism.- 7.3 → 4: From Hegel to Badiou: Ontology of the Void.- Part 3. Means & Ends: The Four of the (Greimasian) Square.- 8. Four Examples of Squared Analysis.- 9. Societies, Multiplicities, Sets: From Typology to Topology.- 10.Conclusion : Multiplitism and the Singular
