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Social Suffering : Sociology, Psychology, Politics, Paperback / softback Book

Social Suffering : Sociology, Psychology, Politics Paperback / softback

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There are various forms of suffering that are best described as social suffering, such as stress, harassment, experience of poverty and domination.

Such suffering is a matter of social concern, but it is rarely a matter of discussion in the social sciences, political theory or philosophy.

This book aims to change this by making social suffering central to an interdisciplinary critical theory of society.

The author advances the various contemporary debates about social suffering, connecting their epistemological and political stakes.

He provides tools for recasting these debates, constructs a consistent conception of social suffering, and thereby equips us with a better understanding of our social world, and more accurate models of social critique. The book contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy.

Renault argues that social suffering should be taken seriously in social theory as well as in social critique and provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

He goes on to inquire into the political uses of references to social suffering, surveys contemporary controversies in the social sciences, and distinguishes between economical, socio-medical, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches, before proposing an integrative model and discussing the implications for social critique.

He claims that the notion of social suffering captures some of the most specific features of the contemporary social question and that the most appropriate approach to social suffering is that of an interdisciplinary critical theory of society.

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