TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritzer, George
AU  - Smart, Barry
TI  - Handbook of Social Theory
SN  - 9780761941873
U1  - 300.1  
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Philosophie sociale
KW  - Sciences sociales Philosophie
KW  - Social sciences Philosophy
N1  - 1. Introduction 
Theorists, Theories and Theorizing
PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY
2. Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: Creating Social Theory 
3. The Origins of Positivism: The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer
4. Maintaining Marx
5. Max Weber: Work and Interpretation
6. The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel: Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology
7. Durkheim's Project for a Sociological Science
8. The Emergence of the New: Mead's Theory and Its Contemporary Potential
9. Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge  
10. Psychoanalysis and Sociology : From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism
11. Classical Feminist Social Theory  
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
12. Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories  
13. Talcott Parsons : Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon?
14. Nietzsche : Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium
15. Critical Theory  Richard 
16. Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action : An Incomplete Project
17. Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century  
18. Phenomenology and Social Theory  
19. Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology  Linda 
20. Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks 
21. Sociological Rational Choice  
22. Contemporary Feminist Theory  
23. Multiculturalism 
24. Social Theory and the Postmodern  
25. Michel Foucault : A Man in Danger' 
26. The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency  
27. Norbert Elias and Process Sociology  
PART THREE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY
28. Positivism in the Twentieth Century  
29. Metatheorizing in Sociology  
30. Cultural Studies and Social Theory : A Critical Intervention 
31. Theories of Consumption  
32. Sexualities : Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity 
33. The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory  
34. Globalization Theory 2000+ : Major Problematics 
35. Nationalism : Between Nation and State
36. Socialism : Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows 
37. Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies 
38. Sociology, Morality and Ethics : On Being with Others
39. Postsocial Relations : Theorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment
N2  - The 'Handbook of Social Theory' presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.(Source: WorldCat)
ER  -