| Description | | - Provides coverage of both classical and contemporary social theory in a single volume, offering a one-stop guide to all the major topics in the theoretical foundations of modern sociology
- Covers the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons but lays special emphasis on recent developments in social theory since the later twentieth century
- Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field on the major topics of modern social theory
- Covers the centre ground of modern sociology but also reaches out to the many current interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies, anthropology, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, philosophy and political science
- All chapters are supplied with questions for discussion, study boxes, guidance on further reading and useful web site addresses
| This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, theories and debates in modern social theory.
Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons to the work of cutting-edge
contemporary theorists. Separate chapters discuss functionalism and its critics, interpretive and interactionist theory, historical social theory, western Marxism, psychoanalytic social theory, structuralism and post-structuralism, structure and agency theory, feminist social theory, postmodernism and its critics, and theories about globalization.
All chapters are supplied with questions for
discussion, study boxes, guidance on further reading and useful website addresses. It is ideal for students of sociology and cultural studies pursuing foundational courses in the history and theory of social analysis, and is also accessible for the general reader. |
Readership: Undergraduates or postgraduates taking social theory modules offered by Social Science departments on a wide range of courses.
| Contents |
Introduction: What is Social Theory?
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Austin Harrington
1.
Modernity and Social Theory: Contexts and Beginnings
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Austin Harrington
2.
Legacies of the Classical Thinkers, I: Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
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Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott
3.
Legacies of the Classical Thinkers, II: Max Weber and Georg Simmel
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Gianfranco Poggi
4.
Functionalism and its Critics
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John Holmwood
5.
Interpretive and Interactionist Theory
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William Outhwaite
6.
Historical Social Theory
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Dennis Smith
7.
Western Marxism
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Douglas Kellner
8.
Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
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Samantha Ashenden
9.
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
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Anthony Elliott
10.
Structure and Agency Theory
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Anthony King
11.
Feminist Social Theory
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Lisa Adkins
12.
Postmodernism and Postmodernity
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Barry Smart
13.
Modernity after Postmodernism
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Gerard Delanty
14.
Globalization
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Robert Holton
Conclusion
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Austin Harrington
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Austin Harrington, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leeds
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