Name: Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory
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Author: Michael Strand;Omar Lizardo
ISBN: 9780226843117

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Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Author

Michael Strand;Omar Lizardo

Year

2025

Pages

322

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 x 2.50 cm

ISBN13

9780226843117

Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory

Michael Strand;Omar Lizardo (Author) · University of Chicago Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory"

Explores the implications of chance and uncertainty in social theory and offers a new interpretation of the sociological canon. Since the founding of the discipline, sociologists have endeavored to understand the structures of groups, organizations, and societies, and how these entities condition our behavior. While some of the foundational theorists saw these processes as largely deterministic, sociological theory has increasingly insisted on the importance of culture in shaping our position in and responses to social groups. In Orienting to Chance, sociologists Michael Strand and Omar Lizardo aim to show that the social order bears an unmistakable link to chance and urge us to think about how it conditions our actions. Strand and Lizardo provide a sweeping overview of a new social theory framework that they call probabilism. Using examples of probabilism in sociology, particularly in the work of Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Pierre Bourdieu, they describe probabilism’s place in multiple fields of science. As the authors argue, their effort at redefinition and recovery helps position sociology as a field of the future, while also keeping it grounded in core issues of action, structure, culture, inequality, and inequity. By sharing these groundbreaking insights and revealing wider theoretical claims about mortality, fate, and technology in the contemporary era, Strand and Lizardo demonstrate how probabilism is an essential intervention for understanding the inevitable role of uncertainty in social life.