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Contested knowledge : social theory today / Steven Seidman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub, 2008Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xv, 310 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1405170018
  • 9781405170017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 22
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .S44 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The idea of a science of society : the Enlightenment and Auguste Comte -- The revolutionary theory of Karl Marx -- The promise of sociology : Emile Durkheim -- The ironic social theory of Max Weber -- The grand theory of Talcott Parsons and of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- The scientific theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau -- The moral sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah -- The critical theory of Jürgen Habermas -- Stuart Hall and British cultural studies -- The critical sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu -- The postmodern world of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard -- Michel Foucault's disciplinary society -- Zygmunt Bauman's sociology of postmodernity -- Feminist theory -- Critical race theory -- Lesbian, gay, and queer theory -- Colonial discourse studies -- From nation to globe : David Held and Mary Kaldor -- Global capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells -- The return of empire? : Hardt and Negri, Harvey and Mann.
Summary: This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. The author combines social analysis and moral advocacy, to demonstrate how social theory can and does - and sometimes doesn't - work within the public and political sphere. -- publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The idea of a science of society : the Enlightenment and Auguste Comte -- The revolutionary theory of Karl Marx -- The promise of sociology : Emile Durkheim -- The ironic social theory of Max Weber -- The grand theory of Talcott Parsons and of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- The scientific theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau -- The moral sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah -- The critical theory of Jürgen Habermas -- Stuart Hall and British cultural studies -- The critical sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu -- The postmodern world of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard -- Michel Foucault's disciplinary society -- Zygmunt Bauman's sociology of postmodernity -- Feminist theory -- Critical race theory -- Lesbian, gay, and queer theory -- Colonial discourse studies -- From nation to globe : David Held and Mary Kaldor -- Global capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells -- The return of empire? : Hardt and Negri, Harvey and Mann.

This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. The author combines social analysis and moral advocacy, to demonstrate how social theory can and does - and sometimes doesn't - work within the public and political sphere. -- publisher description.

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