Social theory

Social theory: twenty introductory lectures

by Joas, Hans

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  • Full title :Social theory : twenty introductory lectures / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner.

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  • Publication Date:2009.

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Traduction de : Sozialtheorie : Zwanzig einführende Vorlesungen.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 605 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0521690889, 9780521870634, 0521870631, 9780521690881
  • oclc:ocn502406002
  • LC Classification:H61.15
  • Dewey Decimal:300.1

Table of Contents

What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis : Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1) : symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2) : ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice : the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand.

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