Introducing social theory
New edition of a coherent, well-organized and thematic introduction to all the major thinkers, issues and debates in classical and contemporary social theory. Traces the development of social theory from the classical ideas of Durkheim, Marx and Weber to the latest contemporary theoretical controver...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Polity Press ,
c2011
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. An introduction to sociological theories
- 2. Marx and Marxism
- 3. Emile Durkheim
- 4. Max Weber
- 5. Interpretive sociology : action theories
- 6. Michel Foucault : language, discourse theory, and the body-centredness of modernity
- 7. Social structures and social action
- 8. Postmodernity, postmodernism and it critics
- 9. Rethinking modernity
- 10. Feminist and gender theories