PRECESSUAL SOCIOLOGY

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changingmaking, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social worldboth individuals and entitiesmust be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring obj ects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School of Sociology, provides a means for the disc iplines of h...[Read more]