Modern Social Theory: An Introduction

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New York: Oxford University Press (2004)
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the leading topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons to the work of cutting-edge contemporary theorists

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H61.M574 2005

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Feminist social theory.Lisa Adkins
Structuralism and post-structuralism.Samantha Ashenden
Modernity and postmodernity: part II.Gerard Delanty
Psychoanalytic social theory.Anthony Elliott
Classical social theory, I: contexts and beginnings.Austin Harrington
Conclution: Social theory for the twenty-first century.Austin Harrington
Functionalism and its critics.John Holmwood
Globalization.Robert Holton
Western Marxism.Douglas Kellner
Structure and agency.Anthony King
Interpretativism and interactionism.William Outhwaite
Classical social theory, II: Karl Marx and Eḿile Durkheim.Antonino Palumbo & Alan Scott
Classical social theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel.Gianfranco Poggi
Modernity and postmodernity: part I.Barry Smart
Historical social theory.Dennis Smith

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