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Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings / edited with commentaries by Charles Lemert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2010Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xviii, 691 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813343925
  • 9780813343921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 22
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .S584 2010
Contents:
Introduction: Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures -- Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919 -- The two sides of society -- Split lives in the modern world -- Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945 -- Action, knowledge, self -- Unavoidable dilemmas -- The Golden Moment: 1945-1963 -- The golden age -- Doubts and reservations -- Others object -- Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979 -- Experiments at renewal and reconstruction -- Breaking with modernity -- After Modernity, 1979-1991/2001 -- The idea of the postmodern -- Reactions and alternatives -- After modernity -- Rethinking the Unthinkable After 2001 -- Social theories of global uncertainties -- Melting hard realities/rethinking ancient ideas.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 301 SOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A505816B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 301 SOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A508841B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures -- Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919 -- The two sides of society -- Split lives in the modern world -- Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945 -- Action, knowledge, self -- Unavoidable dilemmas -- The Golden Moment: 1945-1963 -- The golden age -- Doubts and reservations -- Others object -- Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979 -- Experiments at renewal and reconstruction -- Breaking with modernity -- After Modernity, 1979-1991/2001 -- The idea of the postmodern -- Reactions and alternatives -- After modernity -- Rethinking the Unthinkable After 2001 -- Social theories of global uncertainties -- Melting hard realities/rethinking ancient ideas.

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