Social Theory

The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings
7. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-27268-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 674 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1250 g

Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists, race theorists, decolonizing leaders, and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was, as it remains, a collection of selections from those who have changed how we think about social things. Today, as the world is threatened by a global wave of anti-democratic movements, Social Theory adds a new early section to remind us of the origins of democratic values in the 1700s. A new concluding section focuses the theoretical mind on how, in the 2020s, social theorists are rethinking the world in order to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democratic movements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lemert, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. 1690-1919, Modernity’s Classical Age

Social Foundations of Modern Democracy

The Unthinkable Two Sides of Society

Split Lives in the Modern World

Part 2. 1919-1945, Social Theories and World Conflict

Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World

Unavoidable Dilemmas

Part 3. 1945-1964, The Golden Moment

The Golden Age

Doubts and Reservations

Others Object

Part 4. 1963-1979, Will the Center Hold?

Experiments in Renewal and Reconstruction

Part 5. 1969-2001, After Modernity

The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics

Reactions and Alternatives

New Cultural Theories After Modernity

Part 6. After 2001, Global Realities in an Uncertain Future

Global Uncertainties

Rethinking the Past That Haunts the Future

Is the Modern Order Broken?

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University. Among his books are The Structural Lie: Small Clues to Global Things (2011), Why Niebuhr Matters (2011), Uncertain Worlds: World-Systems Analysis in Changing Times (2013, with Immanuel Wallerstein and Carlos Aguirre Rojas), and Globalization: Introduction to the End of the Known World (2015). He is at work on The Uncertain Future of Capitalism (2021, with Kristin Plys) and, among other books, Uncertainties of Time: The Past and Future TimeSpace (with Immanuel Wallerstein, posthumously).