Turner The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0500-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology

A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditionsand critical contemporary issues of social theory.
* Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to SocialTheory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely newcontributions, and a fresh editorial direction
* Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory,social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism
* Includes chapters on demography, science and technologystudies, and genetics and social theory
* Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an importantimpact in shaping the discipline as a whole

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Bryan S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory? (Bryan S. Turner,National University of Singapore).
Part I: Foundations.
1. The Foundations of Social Theory (Gerard Delanty, Universityof Sussex).
2. Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post-Parsonian Developments(John Holmwood, University of Birmingham).
3. Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Patrick Baert, Universityof Cambridge and Fernando Rubio Dominguez, University ofCambridge).
Part II: Actions, Actors, and Systems.
4. Theories of Social Action (Rob Stones, University ofEssex).
5. Functionalism and Social Systems Theory (Giuseppe Sciortino,University of Trento).
6. Structuralism and Poststructuralism (David Chaffee, FlindersUniversity and Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University, CT).
7. Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics (John Law,Lancaster University).
8. Ethnomethodology (Richard A. Hilbert, Gustavus AdolphusCollege).
9. Rational Choice Theory (Raymond Boudon, University ofParis--Sorbonne).
Part III: Perspectives on Social and CulturalAnalysis.
10. Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism (Jack Barbalet,University of Leicester).
11. Phenomenology (Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College).
12. Feminist Theory (Mary Evans, Gender Institute, London Schoolof Economics and Political Science).
13. Postmodern Social Theory (Jan Pakulski, University ofTasmania).
14. Social Constructionism (Darin Weinberg, University ofCambridge).
15. Conversation Analysis and Social Theory (John Heritage,University of California, Los Angeles).
16. Globalization Theory (John Boli, Emory University and FrankJ. Lechner, Emory University).
Part IV: Sociology and the Social Sciences.
17. Genetics and Social Theory (Oonagh Corrigan, University ofPlymouth).
18. Economic Sociology (Richard Swedberg, CornellUniversity).
19. Cultural Sociology (Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale Universityand Isaac Reed, University of Colorado).
20. Historical Sociology (Krishan Kumar, University ofVirginia).
21. The Sociology of Religion (Michele Dillon, University of NewHampshire).
22. Demography (John MacInnes, University of Edinburgh and JulioPérez Diaz, Spanish Council for Scientific Research).
23. Science and Technology Studies (Sophia Roosth (MIT) andSusan Silbey, Fellow of the American Academy of Political andSocial Science).
Part V: New Developments.
24. Mobilities and Social Theory (John Urry, LancasterUniversity).
25. Sociological Theory and Human Rights: Two Logics, One World(Judith Blau, University of North Carolina and Alberto Moncada,Valencia Center, UNESCO).
26. The Sociology of the Body (Bryan S. Turner, NationalUniversity of Singapore).
27. Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory (Daniel Chernilo,University of Alberto Hurtado).
28. The Future of Social Theory (Stephen Turner, University ofSouth Florida).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge).He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 or research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism' and the host institution is Potsdam University.