Journal article
Governance and failure: on the limits of sociology
Journal of Sociology, Vol.31(3), pp.37-50
1995
Abstract
Failure is an ubiquitous and central feature of social life. Yet much sociological inquiry focuses not on failure but on success. This paper adopts a sceptical approach to sociological theory, advancing an account of the necessary limits of sociological inquiry and defending the idea of the primacy of failure on two fronts: first, through the examination of a sociological approach currently developing around the Foucaultian idea of 'governmentality'; and second, through a more general philosophical consideration of the connections between failure and practices of governance or control.
Details
- Title
- Governance and failure: on the limits of sociology
- Authors/Creators
- J. Malpas (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityG. Wickham (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Sociology, Vol.31(3), pp.37-50
- Publisher
- Sage
- Identifiers
- 991005543798907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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