The Sociology of Postmarxism

"Table of Contents _____________________________________________________________________________ Chapter One: Introduction Why The Social? Why Postmarxism? Why Postmarxism and Social capital Chapter Two: From the Social to the Political Introduction The Social in Historical Materialism Setting out a Post- Terrain Sociology and The Social in Postmarxism Counter-Positions of The Social Chapter Three: Classical Approaches to The Social Introduction The Sociological project and the Emergence of Positivism Karl Marx: Logic to Contradiction to Mediation Emile Durkheim: Moral Positivism and Mediation Max Weber: From Rationality to Irrationality as Social Mediation Chapter Four: Establishing a Basis for Postmarxism Introduction The New Priority The Social as ‘Sedimentation’ and The Political as ‘Reactivation’ Chapter Five: From Antagonism to Equivalence Introduction Antagonism as the Limit of Social Objectivity ""You Can Only Free Somethings …"": Hegemony and The Political Hegemony and the Constitution of Equivalence Chapter Six: Finding The Political in Social Capital Introduction What is Social Capital? Forms of Social Capital Social Capital and The Political Chapter Seven: Desert - Migration as Social Dislocation Introduction Quantity and Composition of Global Migration Migration and (Post)Industrialisation Foundational Approaches to Migration Definitional Problematics Causation Theories Continuation Theories Postmarxism and Migration Chapter Eight: Aspiration – Hegemonic Masculinity as Emptiness Introduction Gender Antagonism in the Modernity-Postmodernity Tens"