Destination Unknown
William Davies: Sociology Gone Wrong, 9 June 2022
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past
by Mike Savage.
Harvard, 422 pp., £28.95, May 2021,978 0 674 98807 1 Show More
by Mike Savage.
Harvard, 422 pp., £28.95, May 2021,
Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
by Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood.
Polity, 257 pp., £17.99, July 2021,978 1 5095 4130 0 Show More
by Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood.
Polity, 257 pp., £17.99, July 2021,
A Brief History of Equality
by Thomas Piketty.
Harvard, 272 pp., £22.95, April,978 0 674 27355 9 Show More
by Thomas Piketty.
Harvard, 272 pp., £22.95, April,
“... The ‘premodern’ or ‘traditional’ was over, and therefore of little concern. Fatefully, as Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood show, this was also the way many non-European peoples were seen: as relics to be overhauled or replaced.The hundred-year period that began around 1870 also witnessed the birth and growth of sociology, the discipline most ... ”
