Social theory for beginners / Paul Ransome.
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TextPublisher: Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2010Description: xvi, 480 pagesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1847426743
- 9781847426741
- 300.1 22
- H61
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| Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 300.1 RAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A503778B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-472) and index.
Introduction: who is this book for and how do I use it?; What is social theory?; Where did social theory come from?; Emile Durkheim and the coming of industrial society; Karl Marx, Capitalism and Revolution; Max Weber, Rational Capitalism and Social Action; Talcott Parsons, Functionalism and the Social System; Social Interactionism and the real lives of social actors; Western Marxism, Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School; Language, structure, meaning; Discourse and power: Post-structuralist social theory; Feminist social theory; Reviving theories of modernity: Habermas, Giddens and Bourdieu; Theories of Modernity and Post-modernity; Reflexive modernization: the global dimension and cultural theory; The boundary problem in contemporary social theory.
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