Elliott, Anthony; Turner, Bryan S. - In: Societies 2 (2012) 1, pp. 14-26
Although sociology can be commonsensically and parsimoniously defined as the study of society, the problems of defining … such terms as ‘society’, ‘the social’, and ‘the social system’ remain an ongoing irritant of sociological theory. In … addition to these traditional conceptual problems, there is currently a strong sense that ‘society’ as an empirical reality and …