Description:
This book presents an interpretation of general theoretical sociology as a
tradition with three phases: classical, postclassical, and recent. The interpretation
is undertaken in the spirit of unification, a value commitment to
foster efforts of theoretical integration that are grounded in earlier work
and that contribute to the clarification of the conceptual foundations of
sociology. The study employs a process philosophical perspective as an
intellectual tool to unearth deeper structures of conceptual consistency
amid surface differences.