Contested Knowledge : Social Theory Today
Steven. Seidman
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (654 p.)
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| Utgave | 4th ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title page; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Conflicting Views of Social Theory; Part 1: The Rise of the Classical Tradition; Introduction; 1 The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte; Auguste Comte; References; Suggested Readings; 2 The Revolutionary Theory of Karl Marx; The Unity of Theory and Practice; Historical Materialism: A Revolutionary Science; Das Kapital: The Logic of Social Revolution; Tensions between a Scientific and Moral Vision; References; Suggested Readings; 3 The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim. - Durkheim's Liberal Vision of History and ModernitySuicide: Individualism and Community Revisited; Science, Truth, and Moral Hope; References; Suggested Readings; 4 The Ironic Social Theory of Max Weber; Puritanism and the Making of the Middle Class; Explaining Western Modernity and the Irony of History; Charisma and Bureaucracy: The Modern Dream Turned Nightmare; Science, Truth, and Values; References; Suggested Readings; Afterword; Part II: Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology; Introduction; 5 The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons and of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. - ReferencesSuggested Readings; 9 Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies; References; Suggested Readings; 10 The Critical Sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu; Anthony Giddens; Pierre Bourdieu; References; Suggested Readings; Afterword; Part IV: Revisions and Revolts: The Postmodern Turn; Introduction; 11 The Postmodern World of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard; Structuralism: A Vision of a Scientific Human Studies; Jacques Derrida; Jean-François Lyotard; Jean Baudrillard; References; Suggested Readings; 12 Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society. - Rethinking Sexual Liberation: Foucault's Genealogy of SexualityImagining Modernity: The Idea of a Disciplinary Order; References; Suggested Readings; 13 Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Postmodernity; From Modernity to Postmodernity; Postmodernity and Sociology; References; Suggested Readings; Afterword; Part V: Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory; Introduction; 14 Feminist Theory; Gynocentric Feminism: Dorothy Smith; Difference Feminism: The Intersection of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class; Postmodern Feminism: Judith Butler; Theorizing Masculinity; References. - Suggested Readings. - Talcott ParsonsPeter Berger and Thomas Luckmann; References; Suggested Readings; 6 The Scientific Theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau; Randall Collins; Peter Blau; References; Suggested Readings; 7 The Moral Sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah; C. Wright Mills; Robert Bellah; References; Suggested Readings; Afterword; Part III: Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory; Introduction; 8 The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas; Social Critique as Reason; Reconstructing Marxism as General Theory and Critique; Failed Modernization: The Triumph of Instrumental Reason. - Contested Knowledge is a well-established text offering up-to-date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time. This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. It provides a thoughtful and rigorous, yet highly accessible and reader-friendly account of social theory. Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements Reviews sociological theory from a truly contemporary perspective Examines both classical and contemporary theories <b
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| Emner | Postmodernism - Social aspects
Sociology - Methodology Methodology Social aspects Vis mer... Social theory
Metoder Postmodernisme Social Change Social Sciences Sociology & Social History Sosiologi postmodernisme sosiologi metodologi sosial sosiologer sosiologisk teori |
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| ISBN | 9781405170017
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