Towards a 'MacIntyrean Turn' in Sociology: A Case-Study in Syncretic Disciplinary Development

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dc.contributor.advisorWalsh, Philip
dc.contributor.authorKruger, Reiss John
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:49:05Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:49:05Z
dc.date.copyright2024-11-27
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:49:04Z
dc.degree.disciplineSociology
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAs a discipline born out of the intertwining of traditions of philosophy, political economy, history, and more, sociology has always been an interdisciplinary area of academic research. Despite this, there is a particular interlocutor who is under-explored in contemporary sociology: Alasdair MacIntyre. While a few have asked what MacIntyre might offer sociology, this has been far from a dialogue between MacIntyre and contemporary sociology. This work will catalyze such a process, aiming at the development of a ‘MacIntyrean Sociology.’ To achieve this, this work lays out the dialogical approach it seeks to deploy (Ch 1), deeply engaging in the explication of many of MacIntyre’s core theoretical developments throughout his career (Ch 2), and then traces the connection between MacIntyre’s ideas and his personal and academic development to some of the foundational theorists in sociology – especially Marx and Weber. Starting with his Hegelian foundations, Marx’s theoretical development is followed into MacIntyre’s work, and the continuing influence of Marx is explicated (Ch 3, 4). Likewise, tracing the Nietzschean roots in Weber, we see the influence of each on MacIntyre’s work (Ch 5, 6). The work concludes by deploying this broad range of theoretical grounding by taking up the case-study of ‘public sociology’ using the work of Pierre Bourdieu as an ideal-typical case-study in this regard (Ch 7) and asking the question of how a deployment of a more ‘MacIntyrean’ sociology might help overcome some of the challenges in this contemporary disciplinary development (Ch 8).
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42805
dc.languageen
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dc.subject.keywordsAlasdair MacIntyre
dc.subject.keywordsSociology
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy of social science
dc.subject.keywordsNietzsche
dc.subject.keywordsMarx
dc.subject.keywordsHegel
dc.subject.keywordsWeber
dc.subject.keywordsBourdieu
dc.subject.keywordsTheories of the background
dc.subject.keywordsEthics
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemology
dc.subject.keywordsTranslatability
dc.subject.keywordsVirtue ethics
dc.subject.keywordsDialogue
dc.subject.keywordsGadamer
dc.subject.keywordsAristotle
dc.subject.keywordsPractices
dc.subject.keywordsTraditions
dc.subject.keywordsHuman action
dc.subject.keywordsPractical philosophy
dc.subject.keywordsHuman vulnerability
dc.subject.keywordsHuman flourishing
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative selfhood
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutions
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemological crises
dc.subject.keywordsPrereflective backgrounds
dc.subject.keywordsHabitus
dc.subject.keywordsLifeworld
dc.subject.keywordsMoral psychology
dc.subject.keywordsCritical pedagogy
dc.subject.keywordsHuman rights
dc.subject.keywordsLiberalism
dc.subject.keywordsEmotivism
dc.subject.keywordsAlienation
dc.subject.keywordsDialectic
dc.subject.keywordsHistory
dc.subject.keywordsIron cage
dc.subject.keywordsVocations
dc.subject.keywordsPublic sociology
dc.subject.keywordsField
dc.subject.keywordsCapital
dc.subject.keywordsPositivism
dc.subject.keywordsRelativism
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical economy
dc.subject.keywordsAdam Smith
dc.subject.keywordsMacIntyrean theory
dc.subject.keywordsMacIntyrean sociology
dc.titleTowards a 'MacIntyrean Turn' in Sociology: A Case-Study in Syncretic Disciplinary Development
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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