Critical Social Theories

3rd Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-61205-197-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This thoroughly updated edition of Critical Social Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories today. Ben Agger covers a diverse range of perspectives, from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. This new edition traces new developments in theory up to 2012. It also offers a new chapter on challenges to modernity by religious fundamentalism, right-wing politics, terrorism, the decline of civil discourse and globalisation. Particular attention is also given to the changing impact of the Internet on culture, media, politics and personal identity. Critical Social Theories assumes little prior knowledge and is written for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and other social sciences and humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agger, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Third Edition 1. The Disciplinary Positioning of Theory 2. The Politics of Grand Narratives I: Theorizing Postmodernity 3. The Politics of Grand Narratives II: From Derrida to Difference Theory 4. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School 5. Feminist Theory 6. Cultural Studies 7. Critiques of Critical Social Theory 8. Critical Social Theory: Applications and Implications 9. The 1960s at Forty: Renewing Public Sociology in the Twenty-first Century 10. De-Rationalization, Regression and the Challenges to Social Theory

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Agger, University of Texas, Arlington, is the author of many previous books on Media and Critical Theory, including Fast Capitalism (1989) and Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories (2002).