TITLE:
Time-Space Utopian Model as a Critical Method of Sociology: A Book Review of Utopia Method Vision
AUTHORS:
Wanting Li
KEYWORDS:
Utopia Method Vision, Utopia Method, Bricolage, Space Dimension, Time Dimension
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
7,
2021
ABSTRACT: Utopia as a method of sociology, has been identified as a proper and
distinctive device for analyzing social structures and proposing social
solutions to a better future. Since 2000, there has been an increasing
attention to the function of Utopia. To discuss this topic, twelve well-known
scholars in utopian studies participate in a two-year research seminar and
contribute their perspectives of utopian method in the book Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. This
book provides a new sense of utopia’s time and space nature but not a
time-space utopia method. To fill in the gap, this study will propose a
time-space utopian model after devising space and time models respectively
through the method Bricolage. The products will contribute to the systematic understanding of utopia
method in a time-space dimension, thus promoting a visualized time-space utopia model as a critical method of sociology.