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Beginning classical social theory / Marcel Stoetzler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BeginningsPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiv, 351 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1784991457
  • 9781784991456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 23
LOC classification:
  • H61.15 .S76 2017
Contents:
1. Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory -- 2. The well-planned reorganisation of society : Auguste Comte -- 3. If you can't beat democracy, join it : Alexis de Tocqueville -- 4. Pariahs of the world, unite! : Flora Tristan -- 5. Capitalist modernity is the real savagery : rKarl Marx -- 6. The conflict of community and society : Ferdinand Tönnies -- 7. There is some Thing out there : Emile Durkheim -- 8. The double consciousness : W. E. B. Du Bois -- 9. From good to bad capitalism and back : Max Weber -- 10. Strangers who are from here : Georg Simmel -- 11. Love, marriage and patriarchy : Marianne Weber -- 12. Critical versus traditional theory : Max Horkheimer -- 13. What is a woman, and who is asking anyway : Simone de Beauvoir -- 14. Society as mediation : Theodor W. Adorno.
Summary: “Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory. Rather than learning how to admire the canonical theorists, readers are alerted to the flow of their arguments and the texts' contradictions and limitations.”--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory -- 2. The well-planned reorganisation of society : Auguste Comte -- 3. If you can't beat democracy, join it : Alexis de Tocqueville -- 4. Pariahs of the world, unite! : Flora Tristan -- 5. Capitalist modernity is the real savagery : rKarl Marx -- 6. The conflict of community and society : Ferdinand Tönnies -- 7. There is some Thing out there : Emile Durkheim -- 8. The double consciousness : W. E. B. Du Bois -- 9. From good to bad capitalism and back : Max Weber -- 10. Strangers who are from here : Georg Simmel -- 11. Love, marriage and patriarchy : Marianne Weber -- 12. Critical versus traditional theory : Max Horkheimer -- 13. What is a woman, and who is asking anyway : Simone de Beauvoir -- 14. Society as mediation : Theodor W. Adorno.

“Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory. Rather than learning how to admire the canonical theorists, readers are alerted to the flow of their arguments and the texts' contradictions and limitations.”--Publisher's website.

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