Modern Social Theory

An Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925570-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduates or postgraduates taking social theory modules offered by Sociology and Social Science departments on a wide range of courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrington, Austin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: What is Social Theory?

- 1: Austin Harrington: Classical Social Theory, I: Contexts and Beginnings

- 2: Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott: Classical Social Theory, II: Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim

- 3: Gianfranco Poggi: Classical Social Theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel

- 4: John Holmwood: Functionalism and its Critics

- 5: William Outhwaite: Interpretivism and Interactionism

- 6: Dennis Smith: Historical Social Theory

- 7: Douglas Kellner: Western Marxism

- 8: Anthony Elliott: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

- 9: Samantha Ashenden: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism

- 10: Anthony King: Structure and Agency

- 11: Lisa Adkins: Feminist Social Theory

- 12: Barry Smart: Modernity and Postmodernity: Part I

- 13: Gerard Delanty: Modernity and Postmodernity: Part II

- 14: Robert Holton: Globalization

- Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century

Über Autor(innen)

Austin Harrington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has published three books: Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics, Polity Press, 2004; Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas, Routledge, 2001 and The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to his Critics, 1907-1910, Liverpool University Press, 2001, edited with D. Chalcraft.