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Towards Reconceptualizing Political Action *
Author(s) -
Abrahams Naomi
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1992.tb00285.x
Subject(s) - sociology , scholarship , action (physics) , field (mathematics) , politics , meaning (existential) , context (archaeology) , epistemology , political action , macro , social science , political science , law , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , biology , programming language
The discipline of sociology faces important challenges that may result in a transformation of the field. For example, the practice of specialization potentially takes on a new meaning in the context of growing interdisciplinary studies, the growth of feminist scholarship, and renewed efforts at micro‐macro linkages. In essence, more comprehensive accounts of social phenomena are made possible as a result of these trends. This paper examines the way in which such approaches may lead to advances in the study of political action.