More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. Olli Pyyhtinen argues that to make sociology responsive to life in the 21st century we need a new sociological imagination, one that addresses connectivity, understands the world in which we live as both a human and non-human world, and is sensitive to the multiple scales on which things exist. A fresh and innovative take on the promise of sociology, this book will appeal to scholars and students both within sociology and the social sciences more broadly.

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"Olli Pyyhtinen's stunningly original book dares us to think against the grain of the professional pathologies of sociology including its fixation on static substances and the micro/macro split by thinking with the dynamic relationships and heterogeneous collectives that make up our experience of social life on multiple scales. Drawing creatively from both classical and contemporary theorists and elaborating on a variety of readily accessible examples, this manifesto fulfills its promise to bring the imagination to bear on the most urgent tasks of social science." - Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia, Canada

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University of Tampere, Finland

Olli Pyyhtinen

About the author

Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and 'the Social' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Gift and its Paradoxes (2014), and Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, with Veijola et al).

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Book Title: More-than-Human Sociology
Book Subtitle: A New Sociological Imagination
Authors: Olli Pyyhtinen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137531841
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53183-4Published: 05 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53184-1Published: 09 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 112
Topics: Sociology, general, Social Theory, Personality and Social Psychology, Intellectual Studies, Cultural Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Bringing Imagination Back In

Turn to Relations

Matters of Scale

More-than-Human

Conclusion: The Promise of Sociology?

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