Handbook of Social Theory /

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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001.Description: xi, 552p. ; 24cmISBN:

9780761941873

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DDC classification:

300.1 RIT

Contents:

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

Summary: The 'Handbook of Social Theory' presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.(Source: WorldCat)

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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

The 'Handbook of Social Theory' presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.(Source: WorldCat)

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